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New Delhi: After championing a ban on cow slaughter in Uttar Pradesh, where he is chief minister, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Adityanath earlier this week said that the demand from Muslim clerics that the cow be named national animal and the country be brought under a uniform cow slaughter ban was “double standard.”

“I have come to know that some maulanas have demanded that the cow be declared a national animal. The cow is already our mother and our bond with the cow spans beyond lifetimes. No formal declaration is required to define the relationship between a mother and her child,” Adityanath said at Bijnor on June 2, according to Deccan Herald.

Indian Express reported that he also claimed to have a problem with the fact that Muslim clerics had referred to the cow as an “animal” and claimed that those “who call the cow an animal also support cow slaughter.”

Adityanath also cautioned clerics, asking them to discourage cow slaughter........

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