Devout Hindu advocates will fight in SC on Kanwar Yatra Orders.

Display of name controversy: SC stays UP govt’s directive to shop owners during Kanwar Yatra.

The anti-Hindu system in politics, judiciary and business can’t enforce the majority people to compromise with Halal, Thuk Jihad and Beef-eaters foiling their Hindu faith and rights.

By Upananda Brahmachari.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the directives by the Uttar Pradesh government directing shop owners to display their nameplates outside shops during the KanwarYatra.

SC will next hear the matter on July 26. Issuing notice to the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh, where the Ujjain municipal body has issued a similar directive, a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti, however, said eateries may be required to display the kind of food they are serving like they are vegetarian or non-vegetarian.

A large number of devotees travel from various places with ‘kanwars’ carrying holy water from the Ganga to perform ‘jalabhishek’ of Shivlings during the Hindu calendar month of ‘Shravan’. Many believers shun consuming meat during the month they consider holy.

Reminiscent of Sabrimala Case, the significant order against ‘Hindu sentiment’ comes amid an escalating row over the directives, with even BJP ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) joining the chorus for their withdrawal and opposition parties resolving to raise the issue in Parliament.

The opposition has alleged that the orders were “communal and divisive” and intended to target Muslims and Scheduled Castes by forcing them to reveal their identity, but the BJP maintained that the step has been taken keeping in mind law and order issues and the religious sentiments of pilgrims.

 “We deem it appropriate to pass interim order prohibiting the enforcement of the above directives. In other words, food sellers may be required to display kind of food, but must not be forced to display names of owners, staff employed,” the bench said and posted the matter for further hearing on Friday.

No one appeared for the state governments in the apex court on Monday. The top court was hearing a batch of pleas including those by TMC MP Mahua Moitra, academician Apoorvanand Jha and columnist Aakar Patel, and NGO Association of Protection of Civil Rights challenging the directives.

At the outset, the bench asked senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for Moitra, if any formal order has been passed in the matter.

Singhvi said a “camouflaged” order has been passed to display names of owners of eateries. He asserted the orders passed by the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments is “exclusion by identity” and against the Constitution.

Senior advocate Chander Uday Singh, appearing for Association for Protection of Civil Rights, submitted that while the state authorities were claiming the order proposed voluntary compliance, it was being enforced by coercion.

Asking Singhvi to desist from exaggeration, the bench told him, “These orders have dimensions of safety and hygiene also.”

But, unfortunately, there was nobody to speak open for the Hindus as all the anti-Hindu hordes in the apex court were ready to demean the Hindu sentiments being trampled by the obnoxious Halal and Thuk-Jihad (spitting on foods to make it Halal) implications on Hindus during Holy ‘Shravan kanwar yatra’ in a compulsion to take –buy foods and other puja-samagris (material for worship rituals) from the beef-eaters.

The anti-Hindu system in politics, judiciary and business can’t enforce the majority people to compromise with Halal, Thuk Jihad and Beef-eaters foiling their faith and rights.

According to the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 Regulation, displaying the FSSAI License/Registration Number at food premises is mandatory. Moreover, any shops must display its trade license in a prominent place of the shop to show its validity and jejunity. But, when the Uttrar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh or Uttarakhand Govt tries to implement the same, it comes with a big debate.

An official in the Home secretariat in Lucknow says,  such order was first issued in 2006 when Mulayam Singh Yadav and later Mayawati were Chief Ministers of UP, and the Congress-led UPA government was in power at the Centre. According to the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006, the FSS Regulation mandates displaying the FSSAI License/Registration Number at food premises. Obviously it displays the company, eateries, food premises with the name of owners.

In the present context, initially confined to the Muzaffarnagar district, the order has been extended statewide under the directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He announced that all food and beverage shops along Kanwar routes in Uttar Pradesh must display the names and identities of their owners to maintain the sanctity of the pilgrims’ faith, promising strict action against those selling halal-certified products.

But, nobody came forward for the devout Hindu Kanwar Yatris if they don’t want to take any Halal Verified food items, any food  stuff or others items contaminated with ‘beef-eaters’ which grossly hurt their religious sentiments.

It is not any question of ‘apartheid’ or ‘untouchability’.  Hindus have their right to choose from ‘Halal’ or ‘Suddh’. They can take measures to avoid ‘thuk jihad’ in fruits, flowers, sweets and other food items. Why Hindus will be put in a compulsion to take or buy any food or materials from beef-eaters during a holy pilgrimage? The anti-Hindu net-work cannot impose their entire dictate on the religious Hindus for a so-called ‘harmony’ in an utter ‘hegemony’. Hindus have right to know from whom they are purchasing anything during any Hindu pilgrimage or anytime.

In the next hearing on July 26, devout Hindu advocates will fight for the exact implementation of the orders issued to maintain religious feelings of Hindus including the sanctity of Varanasi, Ayodhya, Mathura places in Uttar Pradesh; Haridwar, Rishikesh, Kankhal in Uttrakhand; Ujjain, Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh and other places of these states.

Sentiment of Hindus is not a matter of joke by the political parties as they consider it useless in a very culpable way.

In the meanwhile, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) hoped that the “basic human rights” of pilgrims will be “duly understood and protected” in the next hearing of the matter by the apex court.

Through this writing, I appeal to Dr Subramanian Swamy, Senior Advocate Hari Shankar Jain, Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, Advovate Ranjana Agnihotri, Advocate Amita Sachdeva, Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, Advocate J Sai Deepak, Advocate Karunesh Shukla and many of Hindu friends in Supreme Court to fight for the Hindus in these issues related to Kanwar Yatra. Hail Lord Mahakal. Har Har Mahadev.

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News inputs from ANI & India Express.