A whopping 80 per cent of respondents have favoured enacting a tough law
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath Yogi has directed officials to prepare an action plan for closing down illegal abattoirs across the state even as he warned against laxity on the issue.In the UP Vision Document, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in run up to the recently concluded 2017 state poll, had promised shutting down illegal and mechanised abattoirs in the state after coming to power.While, there are about 45 licensed mechanised slaughterhouses in UP operating in the private sector, the number of illegal abattoirs is estimated in several hundreds. The government has already rolled out the process of identifying units flouting norms or operating without valid licenses.Holding a review meeting with top administrative and police officials here today, Yogi also stressed upon blanket ban on cow slaughter in the state.Besides, he asked officials to identify anti-social elements active in different pockets of the state and to take strict penal action against them.He further ...
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Official sources did not specify the type of slaughterhouses which will be shut
New Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday quit his Lok Sabha membership
Adityanath is a familiar face in national politics due to his communal remarks from time to time
He attacked the former SP government for not utilising the funds allocated to it by the Centre
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Almost an year ago, NGT had ordered the closure of these two slaughterhouses, an official said
Party wary that Modi could be losing support among moderate Hindus
Yogi Adityanath is expected to enter the premises only at an auspicious moment.
The installation of the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh has also cleared the decks of large scale transfers of senior state administrative and police officials in coming days.The change of guard in UP have always been accompanied by such mass transfers to post select brass of officials on key posts and important government departments.The incoming dispensation likes to post its choicest bureaucrats on significant posts, including chief secretary, director general of police (DGP), principal secretaries and secretaries of departments, directorates etc.The new regime justifies this administrative reshuffle as proactive implementing its roadmap for better law and order situation, besides tighter control over state bureaucracy to facilitate faster economic growth as promised in their election manifesto.Akhilesh Yadav, on taking over the mantle of the UP chief minister on March 15, 2012, had effected transfer of over 1,000 senior administrative ..
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Adityanath has in the past accused Muslim men of waging 'love jihad'
Rebuffing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion that the newly formed government under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath would leave no stone unturned to make UP 'Uttam Pradesh, the Janata Dal (United) on Monday said there is a lot of difference in the former's saying and execution."Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks of development and indulges in conflict. There is a lot of difference between development and conflict. The same difference lies in Modi ji's saying and execution," JD (U) leader Ali Anwar told ANI.Echoing similar sentiments, another JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav said the entire nation is not ready to accept what Prime Minister Modi is saying as everybody knows what kind of statements Yogi Adityanath gives.In a series of tweets, Prime Minister Modi has expressed confidence over the newly formed government in Uttar Pradesh and said it would bring record development in the state."Our sole mission & motive is development. When UP develops, India develops. We want to serve .