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 reaction to the Supreme Court staying the directive to shops along the Kanwar Yatra route, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said that this yatra is carried out based on faith, and the people who are a part of it must know what is made at the place where they are eating.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Dinesh Sharma said that there is no objection to the Supreme Court's order staying the Kanwar Yatra directives and expressed that people also should have no objection to presenting their identities.
"I had said that the Supreme Court should take cognizance of this matter and stop such action. Just like a diya flutters before being blown out, the communal politics that has ended, its diya is now fluttering and so the hearing is being held. The government has taken many such steps because
After the Supreme Court put an interim stay on 'nameplates' on eateries in Kanwar Yatra routes, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and petitioner Mahua Moitra on Monday termed it an "unconstitutional order" and said that the order was against the fundamental principles of the Constitution.
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.
Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbar spoke on Monday about the decision to place nameplates on the food shops in the Kanwar route in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
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.
"Police teams are ready and proper security arrangements have been made...The video surveillance has been increased through drones. Mounted Armed Police and Dog Squad have also been deployed...," Nuh Superintendent of Police Vijay Pratap said speaking to ANI on Monday.
With the monsoon showers giving their cool embrace to the subcontinent, devotees across the nation officially began their Kanwar Yatra on the occasion of the first Monday of 'Sawan' today.
The month of Sawan is famous for the Kanwar Yatra; devotees bring Ganga Jal and offer it to Lord Shiva on the day of Shivratri. Savan Shivratri falls in the month of July or August every year.