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Maharashtra MoS Fauzia Khan faces ire for posing with hunted animals
Monday December 24, 2012 01:10:09 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Criticising
minister of state for education Fouzia Khan for taking photographs
with hunted animals in South Africa, the Federation of Indian
Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) Monday demanded an
apology.
Khan, a minister of state for school education and women and child
development, came under intense criticism after her photographs
with hunted wild animals were flashed across the internet earlier
this month.
In a strongly worded letter to Khan, a Nationalist Congress Party
(NCP) minister, an FIAPO spokesperson said that she had sent a
wrong message to the youth of India.
"We have demanded that the minister tender a public apology. She
has sent a very wrong message to the youth of India who are
directly influenced by her office as minister of education," the
spokesperson said.
In her defence, Khan said she did not kill any of the animals - a
springbok, zebra, kudu, blue wildebeest and impala - and that she
was just posing with the dead animals in the pictures.
She also said that hunting these animals was not illegal in South
Africa, a country she had visited six months ago.
"We have recommended that she re-evaluate her response and focus
on developing humane education modules with the assistance of
animal protection organisations for state schools, to spread the
message of compassion and care for all living creatures as stated
in our constitution," the FIAPO spokesperson said.
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