Kolkata, May 22 -- CPI(M) MP Bikashranjan Bhattacharyya on Friday flagged concerns over the state government's new notification enforcing the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act, 1950, asserting that the move will adversely impact the livelihoods of cattle traders and emphasised that a significant number of these traders belong to the Hindu community.

Speaking to ANI, Bhattacharyya stated that any policy driven by religious considerations is bound to fail, adding that such an approach has already failed in West Bengal.

"A number of petitions were moved today before the high court of Calcutta challenging the state government's notification relating to the slaughter of animals. This was based on the basis of an act which was passed i...