Promote egg as diet, says Tript Bajwa

Promote egg as diet, says Tript Bajwa

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 11

After triggering a controversy with his demand to identify holy cow from several breeds in the state, Punjab Congress Minister Tript Rajinder Bajwa today demanded that eggs should be declared vegetarian food.

Speaking at a function organised by the Union Government in Chandigarh to mark the World Egg Day, in collaboration with Central Poultry Development Organisation, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development Minister, emphasised that to promote poultry industry in the country, the Centre should make the religious leaders, especially Hindus, to propagate egg as a vegetarian diet.

"By doing so, people will get balanced diet at a cheap price and also the poultry industry will prosperous, which in turn will increase farmers' income," he said.

Bajwa said that a recent research made it clear that egg didn't have any living cell, and for producing egg, mating of hen and cock isn’t required. He said that the demand of the poultry farmers to include egg in the mid-day meal scheme would be discussed with Capt Amarinder Singh.