New Delhi: Five more BJP-ruled states have followed Uttar Pradesh’s example and cracked down on ‘illegal’ meat shops.
Three meat shops were sealed in Haridwar, 11 were shut in Raipur and one in Indore.
Apart from this, around 4,000 illegal shops face closure in Jaipur with the civic corporation announcing its crackdown on such shops and slaughterhouses from April.
Meat sellers told the Times of India that 950 of these 4,000 shops were authorised but the corporation did not renew their licences after March 31 last year.
A JMC official told the Times of India that the licences could not be renewed as the municipal body had approved a proposal for increasing the licence fee from Rs 10 to Rs 1,000, but the gazette notification had not been issued till date.
This despite the directorate of local bodies clearing the file on licence fee hike and sending it back to JMC. "We are not at fault as we filed applications for renewal of licences. However, our applications were not accepted. We will protest against the JMC's drive," said Abdul Raquf Khurshi, president, New Jaipur Meat Association.
Meanwhile, more than 200 Shiv Sena activists took to the streets of Gurugram on Tuesday closing down down all meat shops during the festival of Navratri.
The Sena activists demanded that all the shops selling meat, including the international food giant KFC, should be closed for the nine days of Navaratri and on all Tuesdays thereafter.
In Uttar Pradesh, after the new Aditya Nath Yogi led BJP government took office, it imposed a ban on illegal slaughterhouses in the state. However, there have been allegations that the order is being used to harass licenced meat vendors.
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