Authorities have banned the sale of all non-vegetarian meals in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Maihar city throughout the nine-day Navratri pageant.
Maihar is dwelling to revered Maa Sharda Mandir, a Shaktipeeth for Hindus. Tens of hundreds of devotees go to the city throughout the annual nine-day ‘Maa Shardey Chaitra Navrati Truthful’.
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The Navratri festivities commenced on Sunday.
Moreover, meat retailers in Bhopal and Indore have been ordered to stay closed on the festivals of Chaiti Chand (March 30), Ram Navami (April 6), Mahavir Jayanti (April 10) and Buddha Purnima (Could 12), civic officers stated.
To implement the ban within the two cities, municipal authorities have warned that retailers will even face cancellation of their licence in the event that they flout the orders.
Authorities have warned that retailers will face cancellation of their licence in the event that they flout the orders.
A number of BJP lawmakers, together with former get together whip within the Lok Sabha and MP Public Works Division minister Rakesh Singh, had demanded that meat retailers within the state be ordered to stay shut throughout Navratri.
The federal government has already introduced that liquor retailers can be closed completely in 17 holy cities, together with Maihar, throughout the state from April 1.
