“I am a Hindu, and I have eaten beef, and will again eat it. There is nothing wrong in beef eating. 90% of the world eats beef. Are they all sinners? And I refuse to believe that cow is sacred or our mother. How can an animal be a mother of a human being? That is why I say 90% Indians are idiots, Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi included.”

On beef ban in Maharastra, as quoted in "I am a Hindu, I have eaten beef, and will again eat it: Markandey Katju" http://www.abplive.in/india/2015/05/22/article594966.ece/I-am-a-Hindu-I-have-eaten-beef-and-will-again-eat-it-Markandey-Katju, ABPLive (22 May 2015)

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