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Meat and Liquor Shops Shut as Authorities Activate Final Security Measures for Kanwar Yatra

Authorities in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Delhi have sealed meat and liquor outlets with curtains, deploying CCTV-monitored lanes to regulate the pilgrimage.

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Overview

  • Meat and liquor shops along the Kanwar Yatra corridors in Uttar Pradesh have been closed or curtained, and Delhi and Uttarakhand administrations have issued matching bans to honor devotees’ faith.
  • Starting on the night of July 10, authorities will enforce traffic diversions and one-way pilgrim lanes, bar heavy vehicles, install 1,543 CCTV cameras, run 60 special buses and open 43 medical camps.
  • After conducting an aerial survey, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered zero tolerance on food defilement, mandated resting shelters, clean drinking water and adequate lighting along the route.
  • Opposition leader Akhilesh Yadav criticized government emphasis on QR codes and name boards as superficial, while BJP MLA Tarvinder Singh Marwah formally requested a temporary national ban on meat and liquor shops along the pilgrimage paths.
  • Authorities have increased surveillance following a spitting arrest in Muzaffarnagar and reports of “I Am Hindu” posters by Hindu Mahasabha activists in Bareilly that traders say stoke communal tensions.