Crackdown on slaughterhouses: Meat sellers in UP on indefinite strike from today

Meat sellers in Uttar Pradesh are going on an indefinite strike from Monday in the wake of the crackdown on illegal and mechanised slaughterhouses

Meat sellers in Uttar Pradesh will go on an indefinite strike from Monday against the crackdown on illegal and mechanised slaughterhouses. "We have decided to intensify our strike from Monday. All shops will remain closed. Fish sellers too have joined us and are extending support to us," Lucknow Bakra Gosht Vypar Mandal office bearer Mubeen Qureshi said.

PTI, while quoting Qureshi said that in the wake of the crackdown, there was no question of the strike being called off anytime soon. "It will go on indefinitely," he said.

Due to the strike, non-vegetarian food outlets, including the famous Tunday Kababi and Rahim's have shifted to mutton and chicken dishes after buffalo meat became scarce. "The meat sellers are piqued over the crackdown on slaughterhouses which has adversely hit the livelihood of lakhs of people," Qureshi said.

After Adityanath Yogi took over as the chief minister, he ordered the closure of illegal slaughterhouses and ensured a strict enforcement of ban on cow smuggling.

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