BJP Legislator

BJP General Secretary CT Ravi issued a statement amid fury over the boycott of "Halal. He called Halal an 'economic Jihad'. The BJP legislator in Bengaluru said, "It (Halal) has been put in place so that Muslims don’t do business with others, which has been forced upon them". Notably, in Karnataka, former CM HD Kumaraswamy called such boycott  as a trend to spoil the state, amid the Halal Meat row.