Mahua Moitra, a member of the Trinamool Congress party, slammed the ban on meat shops in some parts of Delhi for the Hindu festival of Navratri today.
She said that the Constitution gives Indian citizens a lot of freedoms, like the right to eat meat whenever they want and the right to run a business.
“I live in South Delhi.
The Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like and the shopkeeper the freedom to run his trade.
Full stop,” she said in a tweet this morning.
In South Delhi, Mayor Mukesh Suryan said that during the “auspicious period of Navratri devoted to Goddess Durga,” meat shops in his city should be closed.
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He also told people not to eat meat, onions, or garlic during these nine days. He had said that he decided after people complained about it and that it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, but that was not true.
“We will close down all meat shops. People won’t eat meat if it isn’t sold. “He told Tuesday that the order was similar to those in some Islamic countries where drinking water isn’t allowed in public during Ramadan.
“Delhiites are very important to us, so we decided with them in mind. People told me they didn’t like me. It was hard for the people who were fasting because they didn’t like cutting meat in the open. Because this isn’t a violation of anyone’s right to privacy, it’s not. “Mr Suryan said this.
The mayor of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has also called for these shops to be closed during the nine-day festival, but there has been no word from the North Corporation, which the BJP also runs.
East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal said that during Navratra, “90% of people don’t eat non-vegetarian food.” His south counterpart, Mukesh Suryan, said there was “no need to open meat shops” because “most people don’t eat non-vegetarian food” during this time.
However, there was no official order from the civic bodies.
Several meat shop owners in these parts of the national capital kept their businesses closed yesterday because they were afraid of being punished by government officials following the calls for a ban on meat.
Because many Hindus believe that Tuesdays are good days, meat isn’t sold in some of the stores in the city.
A news agency says there are about 1,500 meat shops in the area of the SDMC.
