Shopkeepers being asked to remove their pants: Owaisi slams UP over nameplate row
"The police should do their job and arrest those who are harassing shopkeepers. These people have created a spectacle. They are not even following the orders of the Supreme Court. How can they enter someone's hotel? Going to a hotel and asking someone's religion is wrong. Why isn't the government doing anything?" he added.On July 22 last year, the Supreme Court issued an interim order, putting on hold guidelines that asked shopkeepers in Uttar Pradesh along Kanwar Yatra routes to display their names. The court said that owners would only display the kind of food served in their eateries.advertisementDuring the hearing, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi had said the Uttar Pradesh government's directive was issued without any authority of law and called it a "camouflage order"."It is a camouflaged order for Kanwar Yatra. Violators will be fined if they do not show their names. We are talking about thousands of kilometres. The bulk of these shops are tea stalls and some belong to fruit shop owners. This is economic death," he had said.The Supreme Court's order came after the Muzaffarnagar Police had directed all eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route to display their owners' names on display boards last year. Later, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government extended the order across the state. The Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh governments also followed suit.The move had invited a backlash, not only from the Opposition but also from some of the NDA allies, including Janata Dal (United) and Rashtriya Lok Dal.- Ends
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