UP Polls 2017: Akhilesh Yadav dares PM Modi to ban meat export

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has dared the Modi government to issue a blanket ban on meat export after BJP president Amit Shah vowed to shut down all slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh if voted to power. "I suggest the PM and the BJP’s national president go back to Delhi and put an end to exports of meat. , they must end the facilities and subsidies provided to any slaughterhouse with immediate effect," said Yadav in an interview to India Today. UP is the nation’s leading producer of buffalo meat. According to official figures, Uttar Pradesh accounts for the highest share of 28 per cent of the country’s total population of buffaloes.