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After the UP police asked all eateries, shops and food carts along the Kanwar Yatra route to display their owners names in Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Shamli, chief minister Yogi Adityanath extended the directive to all Kanwar Yatra routes across the state on Friday.I)..
He sternly ordered that it should be ensured that names and identities of proprietors are displayed to avoid confusion among pilgrims during the Kanwar Yatra..
The directive has been criticized by opposition parties and some members of the ruling alliance, who say it targets Muslim traders..
He confirmed that the chief minister had issued this directive to ensure that participants of the procession did not get disturbed during their pilgrimage and added that the order was to be carried out on all Kanwar Yatra routes in the state..
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav demanded that the judiciary take suo motu cognizance of the matter and ensure action after carrying out a detailed probe into the state governments intentions. . Criticising the directive, Communist Party of India, (Marxist-Leninist) state secretary Sudhakar Yadav , in a statement issued on Friday, said such a directive is damaging to communal harmony, divisive, untouchability-oriented and unconstitutional..
