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Joining the chorus of other constituents of ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttar Pradesh government should take back the orders issued to hotel and eatery owners in the state ahead of the Kanwar Yatra.
“These steps have been taken for the first time in view of the Kanwar Yatra. They need amendment. The UP government needs to take it back,” Praful Patel, senior NCP leader and Rajya Sabha MP, said after attending the all-party meeting in Delhi ahead of the Budget session that begins tomorrow.
NCP joins NDA allies such as Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Lok Dal and Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) in opposing the move.
Last week, the Uttar Pradesh government ordered all eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route, which primarily falls in the Muzaffarnagar district, to display the names of their owners to avoid any “confusion”.
“About 240 kilometres of Kanwar Yatra route falls in the district. All the eateries, including hotels, dhabas and carts, on the route have been asked to display the names of their proprietors or those working on these shops,” Muzaffarnagar police chief Abhishek Singh said.
“This has been done to ensure that there should be no confusion among kanwariyas and no law-and-order situation arises. All are following this voluntarily,” he had told reporters then.
Justifying the move, V K Mishra, in-charge of the weights and measures department of Meerut, said that as per the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, every restaurant and dhaba ‘sanchalak’ (person running the eatery unit) needed to display the name of the firm, the owner’s name and the licence number.
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