– The Supreme Court has put on hold guidelines that required shopkeepers along Kanwar Yatra routes in Uttar Pradesh to display their names
– The court has ordered that owners only need to display the kind of food served in their eateries
– Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi argued that the order was issued without legal authority and was a form of “camouflage”
– The directive was criticized for being exclusionary and discriminatory, targeting Muslims and Scheduled Castes
– The Opposition and some NDA allies have criticized the directive as communal and divisive
– The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh extended the order, with Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh also following suit.