Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday continued her stance that Avni, the tigress could be saved if Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar had been a little more patient and sensitive.
Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday continued her stance that Avni, the tigress could be saved if Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar had been a little more patient and sensitive.
“Tigress Avni could have been saved if Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar had been little more patient, sensitive and persistent. Request you to fix responsibility of killing and consider removing the minister from his post,” she said.
On Sunday, Gandhi had in a series of tweets blasted the killing of the tigress.
Calling it 'nothing, but a straight case of crime, Gandhi said that despite several requests from stakeholders, Sudhir Mungantiwar, the minister for forests in Maharashtra, gave orders for the killing. "He has been doing this regularly and this is the third tiger being murdered besides several leopards and wild boars," she alleged.
She also alleged that the shooter’s son was also part of the murder of the tigress. "His son was not authorised to kill. This is patently illegal. Despite the forest officials being committed to tranquilise, capture and quarantine the tigress, the trigger-happy shooter has killed her on his own under orders of Mungantiwar," Gandhi tweeted.
She also lashed out at the shooter Shafat Ali Khan, the man Mungatiwar hired to kill Avni, the tigress. "Shafat Ali Khan has killed 3 tigers, at least 10 leopards, a few elephants and 300 wild boar in Chandrapur, Maharashtra. He is a criminal known for supplying guns to anti-nationals and for a suspected case of murder in Hyderabad. I fail to understand why a state government should even bother about such a man let alone hire his services for illegal and inhuman acts," Gandhi tweeted.
Reacting to union minister Maneka Gandhi's criticism of the killing of tigress Avni, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that her statements were 'harsh', but if they were true, he would order a probe into the killing.
“She (Maneka) has used harsh words. But her sentiments should be understood. All animal lovers’ sentiments are harsh regarding this incident. It was a difficult decision. Whether the procedure was correct or not will be checked,” Fadnavis said, according to a report by the Indian Express.
Gandhi on Sunday has blasted the killing of tigress Avni in Yavatmal Maharashtra.
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