New Delhi: Amid calls from sections of the Muslim community that cow should be declared a national animal, a look at the Constituent Assembly debates shows that two Muslim members had sought an unambiguous spelling out of the state's stance on cow slaughter, with one of them even calling for prohibiting it as part of fundamental rights.
Syed Muhammad Saadulla had cited a Quranic injunction - 'La Ikraba fid Din', which means there ought to be no compulsion in the name of religion - to state that he did not want to obstruct the framers of the Constitution if they directly stated that cow should be protected from slaughter on religious grounds.
