‘Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like’: TMC MP Mahua Moitra on meat ban during Navaratri

On Wednesday Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra slammed the decision to ban meat shops in various parts of Delhi for the Hindu festival of Navratri.

She talked about the rights given to her by the Constitution and said that she is allowed to eat meat whenever she likes and any shopkeepers have the freedom to run their trade.

“I live in South Delhi. The Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like and the shopkeeper the freedom to run his trade. Full stop,” she said in a tweet this morning.

I live in South Delhi.
The Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like and the shopkeeper the freedom to run his trade.

Full stop.

— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) April 6, 2022

The south and east Delhi mayors on Tuesday asked meat shops in their jurisdictions to close their shops during Navratri.

The nine-day Navaratri festival is being observed from April 2 to April 11, with Saptami, Ashtami, and Navami falling on April 9, 10, and 11 respectively.