Why prevent hunting when legal?
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:59 pm
It is really surprising why some people overlord into private matters of others when it is none of their business? What is wrong if someone is hunting in a country where hunting is legal?
NAGPUR: Minister of state for school education and women and child development Fouzia Khan came under intense criticism from the opposition members after her photographs with hunted wild animals, a rarity in India, were flashed across the net on Friday. TOI is in possession of the pix but has not used them because of poor resolution.
The pictures, showing a gun-toting Khan posing with carcasses of many herbivores including impalas and a zebra, were apparently shot in a private game reserve near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Khan claims she did not shoot the animals though hunting is legal in that country. She admitted to TOI, though, that the animals were shot by members of her party and she consumed the bush meat.
The opposition members led by leader in assembly Eknath Khadse stated that minister's act didn't suit her stature, especially when hunting was prohibited in India. Leader of opposition in council Vinod Tawde mentioned her name for killing animals during a debate in the council. The members demanded her resignation on moral grounds. Citing wildlife regulations in India, they demanded an enquiry for her brutal acts.
The minister found herself in the soup after electronic media flashed the photographs. In pictures, the minister is in visibly happy mood along with her family members and friends. The animals seen in the photographs include african deer, stalked deer, zebra and others. The carcasses had wooden stumps impaled into the neck to hold the head up for pictures.
Khan tried to steer clear of the controversy. "The animals were hunted by professional hunters and by family friends. I did nothing wrong as hunting animals is completely legal in South Africa." About controversy about her act, she fumed, "it is nothing but intrusion in my private life." She said she would seek legal opinion on whether she could sue those who leaked the photographs.
The minister said these animals were legally 'culled' to maintain ecological balance. "They even sell meat of those animals. I also ate the meat of those animals as it was sold in markets. It's way of life in that country and also at places like US. I don't understand what wrong I did," she added. "We were on a private visit to family friends having business in South Africa. The media are unnecessarily creating a controversy with pictures leaked without our knowledge. I am a law-abiding citizen. I have never done such things in India," she asserted.
Greens are, naturally, upset by minister's' act. Tiger Centre chief Nishikant Mukherjee termed the act "ridiculous" and "in very poor taste". "Though she can't be indicted, still the act of killing animals for sport can't be justified. Why should we kill them, just because they can't talk or express their emotions? This is atrocious," he said.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 618942.cms
NAGPUR: Minister of state for school education and women and child development Fouzia Khan came under intense criticism from the opposition members after her photographs with hunted wild animals, a rarity in India, were flashed across the net on Friday. TOI is in possession of the pix but has not used them because of poor resolution.
The pictures, showing a gun-toting Khan posing with carcasses of many herbivores including impalas and a zebra, were apparently shot in a private game reserve near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Khan claims she did not shoot the animals though hunting is legal in that country. She admitted to TOI, though, that the animals were shot by members of her party and she consumed the bush meat.
The opposition members led by leader in assembly Eknath Khadse stated that minister's act didn't suit her stature, especially when hunting was prohibited in India. Leader of opposition in council Vinod Tawde mentioned her name for killing animals during a debate in the council. The members demanded her resignation on moral grounds. Citing wildlife regulations in India, they demanded an enquiry for her brutal acts.
The minister found herself in the soup after electronic media flashed the photographs. In pictures, the minister is in visibly happy mood along with her family members and friends. The animals seen in the photographs include african deer, stalked deer, zebra and others. The carcasses had wooden stumps impaled into the neck to hold the head up for pictures.
Khan tried to steer clear of the controversy. "The animals were hunted by professional hunters and by family friends. I did nothing wrong as hunting animals is completely legal in South Africa." About controversy about her act, she fumed, "it is nothing but intrusion in my private life." She said she would seek legal opinion on whether she could sue those who leaked the photographs.
The minister said these animals were legally 'culled' to maintain ecological balance. "They even sell meat of those animals. I also ate the meat of those animals as it was sold in markets. It's way of life in that country and also at places like US. I don't understand what wrong I did," she added. "We were on a private visit to family friends having business in South Africa. The media are unnecessarily creating a controversy with pictures leaked without our knowledge. I am a law-abiding citizen. I have never done such things in India," she asserted.
Greens are, naturally, upset by minister's' act. Tiger Centre chief Nishikant Mukherjee termed the act "ridiculous" and "in very poor taste". "Though she can't be indicted, still the act of killing animals for sport can't be justified. Why should we kill them, just because they can't talk or express their emotions? This is atrocious," he said.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 618942.cms
With you sir