RLD joins NDA allies against UP Kanwar Yatra order, says will discuss it with Centre

The Rashtriya Lok Dal on Friday said it will raise its concerns with both the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government about an order by Muzaffarnagar authorities asking eateries along the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage route to display the names of their owners, reported The Indian Express.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal is part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. The party was the third constituent of the coalition to have opposed the directive in recent days.

“Firstly, our party’s stand is that if a decision is made which impacts a large section of the people, then the government should think it over,” the party’s National Secretary Anupam Mishra told The Indian Express. “Secondly, the timing of this is wrong. As per food safety regulations, every eatery has to display its name, and the details of its products.”

Mishra said that if the police order has to be implemented, then eateries should be told to specify if they serve vegetarian or non-vegetarian food with red or green symbols, like on food packets.

“Our country has people from different communities and harmony must be maintained,” he told the newspaper.

The party will raise the matter in the state as well as in the Centre, Mishra said.

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