In response to Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's allegation that the Congress is promoting slaughterhouses in the country to boost meat export, the Congress said Modi's Gujarat, too, exports meat and that animals are illegally transported from other states to Gujarat.
The party also accused Modi of trying to "communalise animal husbandry".
While addressing rallies in Madhya Pradesh, Modi had said his government had brought a white revolution in the country but the Congress was trying a pink revolution, referring to the high rate of meat export.
Accusing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government of giving subsidies for cow slaughter, Modi had said a person who keeps a cow does not get subsidy but a person who sets up a slaughterhouse does.
Referring to a FICCI report, Congress spokesperson Abhay Dubey said: "The report Overview of Indian Buffalo meat Value Chain reveals Gujarat had 39 slaughter houses that slaughter nearly 1,000 animals a day."
