The hotel owners and vendors in Muzaffarnagar have been ordered to display the real identities of their owners prior to the “Kanwar Yatra” in Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, a directive has been issued to write down the names of the employees at the hotels and stores. The state government has passed an ordinance stating that customers should be aware of whose business they are purchasing from and there should not be any confusion about it. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also asked for the implementation of the same system in the entire state after which the hotel and shop owners have started following the instructions.
The Delhi-Dehradun National Highway-58, which passes through Muzaffarnagar, underwent significant changes the day after the order was pronounced. Till now, a tea stall on the highway was known as “Chai Lover Point,” however, it is now renamed as “Wakil Ahmed Tea Stall.” Its owner Faheem claimed that the authorities approached him and told him to change the name, which he did but complained that he would suffer losses during the “Kanwar Yatra” because the devotees would not come to his shop after reading the new name.
In another instance, the name of a dhaba which was running as “Sangam Shuddha Bhojanalaya” for more than two decades has now been altered to “Salim Shuddha Shakahari Bhojanalaya” after the govt order. It is situated in the Muzaffarnagar district by the side of the road and its proprietor Salim alleged that the name of the place was “Sangam Shuddha Bhojanalaya” for the last twenty-five years but now it has been changed on the orders of the administration.
Meanwhile, Lokesh Bharti, owner of Sakshi Hotel on the Delhi-Dehradun Highway also informed, “We were contacted by two police personnel yesterday and they demanded that the name be written in front of the establishment. along with the names of the people working at the hotel after which four Muslim staff members have been temporarily removed.”
