I never said it was 100% not-beef eating. I made that clear when I mentioned the exceptions of areas where Hindus aren’t the dominant majority or in urban upper/upper-middle class/western expat/tourist enclaves.
However, Hindus do make up 80% of India according to India’s government statistics I linked to in an earlier post and despite outrage about the increasing troubling trend of Hindu extremist nationalist rhetoric and violence against non-Hindus by many observant Hindus…the BJP is unfortunately popular enough in enough regions and nationally to get themselves elected to the point the Congress party has effectively been relegated to the political sidelines atm.