The Uttar Pradesh authorities has submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court docket opposing petitions that problem its directive on displaying store house owners’ names alongside the Kanwar Yatra route. The federal government argued that the directive goals to make sure a peaceable Kanwar Yatra and promote transparency after the Supreme Court docket put an interim keep.
The Yogi Adityanath authorities defined that the thought behind the directive is transparency and informed choice of the consumer/Kanwaria regarding the food they eat through the interval of the Yatra, retaining in thoughts their non secular sentiments in order that they don’t, even by chance, fall foul of their beliefs.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court docket halted implementation of controversial directives from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand that required eateries alongside the Kanwar Yatra path to show details about their house owners and employees. The court docket additionally issued notices to the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh, the place an identical order has been issued in Ujjain.
The court docket, nevertheless, stated eateries could also be required to show the type of meals they’re serving like they’re vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
The highest court docket was listening to a batch of pleas together with these by TMC MP Mahua Moitra, academician Apoorvanand Jha, columnist Aakar Patel, and NGO Affiliation of Safety of Civil Rights difficult the directives.
Nobody appeared for the state governments within the apex court docket on Monday. It has posted the matter for listening to on July 26.
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The opposition thanked the Supreme Court docket for issuing a keep on the directive. Congress welcomed the order and stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ought to remind Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) chief ministers of their “raj dharma.”
Proper-wing teams criticised the ruling and hoped that the “fundamental human rights” of pilgrims could be upheld within the subsequent court docket listening to. Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) secretary normal Bajrang Bagda stated that the order has “demotivated the Hindu group, Hindu pilgrims, and Kanwar Yatris.”