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Recipe book on beef dishes sparks protests in Uttar Pradesh

     Kanpur/Meerut (UP): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers staged noisy protests in Kanpur and Meerut on Thursday against a cookery book that mentions recipe of beef dishes. BJP activists burnt copies of the book written by Professor Umesh Saksena of Jwala Devi College, Kanpur and raised slogans against the professor outside the college. "The book written by Professor Saksena is an insult of our Goddess. We will not tolerate this. She should apologies for it and the college should immediately suspend her. Strict action should be taken against her otherwise we will not let her stay in the city," said Badeji, a BJP activist. Prof. Saksena has temporarily left her house. In Meerut, BJP activists took to the street against publishers, even as police raided its godown in search for copies of the controversial book. "We have told them (publishers) to remove the books from the market and from the shops. We have not found any such book in their godown. He (The Publisher) said that the book was published last year and according to him this book is not in the syllabus this year," said Mukesh Mashram, District Magistrate, Meerut. Cow slaughter is banned in most of the country except all northeastern states, West Bengal and few others.
-Feb 1, 2007    

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