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A BJP councillor has been asking shopowners successful East Delhi’s Mandawali to rename their stores according to their religion.
In a video from 1 specified thrust that has gone viral connected societal media, Vinod Nagar councillor Ravinder Singh Negi is seen asking a shopowner to alteration the sanction of his dairy to bespeak that it is tally by a Muslim.
Negi has posted respective videos of interactions with Muslim shopowners connected X. In 1 specified post, helium says, “I don’t person a idiosyncratic occupation with immoderate Muslim brother, I conscionable privation to accidental that sanction your store aft your existent sanction and tally your concern comfortably, we person nary problem.”
In Delhi, determination is nary regularisation mandating that the sanction of a shopowner has to beryllium mentioned successful a business’s show board.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Negi said, “Yes, determination is nary specified order… The radical of my constituency complained that erstwhile they spell to shops and wage online via UPI, they spot Muslim names arsenic relationship holders for shops that person Hindu names.” He added that helium went to the shops arsenic the councillor to “request” them to alteration the names. “They were misguiding people,” helium claimed.
One specified shopowner said that Negi had visited his store past play and accused him of harassing Hindus. “Why are we bothered by a name? We aren’t doing thing illegal… We person registrations, licenses from FSSAI connected this name… If the authorities don’t person immoderate problem, wherefore does he?” the shopowner asked.
He added that helium had not filed a constabulary ailment since helium did not privation to get embroiled successful ineligible issues. When contacted, Delhi Police officers said they person not received immoderate ailment regarding the thrust truthful far.
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