The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on directives issued by the authorities of certain state governments that eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route should display the names of the owners outside such shops.
In a significant update, the Supreme Court has put a stay on the directive issued by the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh, which mandated eateries along the Kanwariya Yatra route to display the owners' names.
Extending his support to the Uttar Pradesh government over its directive for food shops to display their owners' names along the Kanwar Yatra route, Bharatiya Janata Party Arun Govil on Monday said that he does not find anything wrong with the order.
Notably, Jayant Chaudhary is a part of the National Democratic Alliance government at the centre and his party, RLD, holds important significance in western Uttar Pradesh.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday condemned Uttar Pradesh government's directive for food shops to display their owners' names saying that its an attempt by the BJP to create distance between people.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Golu Shukla from the Indore-3 assembly constituency voiced his support on Saturday for the Uttar Pradesh government's order directing eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route to display names of their respective owners.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday strongly condemned the directive issued by the BJP state governments in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to all eateries to display their owners' names along the entire stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route .
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday came out in support of Uttar Pradesh government's directive for food shops on the Kanwar Yatra route to display their owners' names, saying that a similar notifications were issued during the Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhile
"Fear on UP's kanwar routes: This is The reality of hatred for Indian Muslims ,credit for this visceral hatred goes to political parties /leaders of Hindutva and so called lip servicing Secular parties," Owaisi said in a post on 'X', sharing a photo of an egg stall displaying the name of
The Uttar Pradesh government's directive to food shops on the Kanwar Yatra route to display details of the owner or operator has drawn criticism from the opposition parties as well as several alliance partners of the ruling party, BJP.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Friday termed the Uttar Pradesh government's directive to the food shops on the Kanwar routes to display the details of their owners as an attack against the Constitution. She said that the directive goes against the constitutional dictate that no citizen s