"Constitution Allows Me To...": Trinamool MP Slams Ban On Meat Shops

On Monday, the South Delhi mayor had announced that meat shops should be shut during the "auspicious period of Navratri devoted to Goddess Durga".

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra today slammed the ban on meat shops in South Delhi for the Hindu festival of Navratri. Referring to freedoms guaranteed to Indian citizens by the Constitution, she said it allows her to eat meat whenever she likes and the shopkeepers to sell it.  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.

"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.