New Delhi: Even as the issue of tiger killings was discussed in the Goa Assembly on Wednesday, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Churchill Alemao said that tigers should be “punished” for eating cows when humans are punished for the same.
A tigress and three of her cubs were killed by five locals in Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary last month.
The issue was raised by Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat through a calling attention motion on the floor of the House during the Assembly session on Wednesday.
“What is the punishment for a tiger when he eats a cow? When a human being eats cow, he is punished,” Churchill Alemao said.
As far as wildlife is concerned, tigers are important but as far as human beings are concerned, cows are important, Churchill Alemao said.
“The human angle in the entire episode should not be ignored,” Churchill Alemao said.
Responding to the calling attention motion, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that locals had killed the tigers as the wild cats had attacked their livestock.
There is only one tiger in this country and it do not know the constitution also it do not listen to anyone.🐅