{"id":17974,"date":"2017-05-29T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T06:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T06:35:27","slug":"youth-congress-workers-booked-slaughtering-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/youth-congress-workers-booked-slaughtering-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Congress workers booked for slaughtering calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Rahul slams incident, calling it \u2018barbaric\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Youth Congress leaders and workers were booked by Kannur Police on Monday in connection with the slaughter of a calf in public.<\/p>\n<p>The youth wing of the Congress had held a beef fest on Saturday to protest the centre\u2019s notification banning sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, a video of Youth Congress workers killing a buffalo went viral on social media. In the video, a group of young leaders were seen chanting slogans and slaughtering a buffalo in front of a large gathering which also included children. The protests were reportedly led by Kannur Youth Congress president Rijil Makkutty. This led to Kannur Police lodging a complaint against the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, however, condemned the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What happened in Kerala yesterday is thoughtless,barbaric&amp; completely unacceptable to me &amp;the Congress Party.I strongly condemn the incident<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficeOfRG\/status\/868867931249057797\">May 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kerala had witnessed a large number of beef fests following the centre\u2019s decision. Many state leaders have criticised the move.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the leading party in the ruling LDF coalition, has slammed the NDA government. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the decision is unsuitable for a democratic nation.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rahul slams incident, calling it \u2018barbaric\u2019 Youth Congress leaders and workers were booked by Kannur Police on Monday in connection with the slaughter of a calf in public. The youth wing of the Congress had held a beef fest on Saturday to protest the centre\u2019s notification banning sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter. Incidentally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[6129,111,110,6128],"yst_prominent_words":[6127,6126,3813,5355,4812,6124,6122,6123,4423,4023,4000,3817,5956,5815,4133,6125,6121],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Youth-Congress.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->