"Delhi Isn't Gotham City": Trinamool Member On Mayor's Meat Ban Order
NDTV
Saket Gokhale has demanded that the Municipal Commissioner of South Delhi issue an immediate circular announcing that the ban is illegal.
The forced shutting down of meat shops in South Delhi during the Hindu festival of Navratri is "completely and absolutely illegal", a Trinamool Congress spokesperson said in a letter to the Municipal Commissioner of South Delhi, demanding an immediate circular announcing that the ban on meat shops is illegal. The controversy, triggered by South Delhi Mayor Mukesh Suryan after he announced that meat shops under his civic body should be shut during the "auspicious period of Navratri devoted to Goddess Durga", has snowballed into a massive controversy with many calling it unfair, and even communal. Regarding South Delhi meat ban:Wrote to Municipal Commissioner of @OfficialSdmc asking for an immediate circular announcing that the ban on meat shops is illegal.Delhi isn't Gotham City. Mayor has no executive powers to shut shops.Commissioner must act or answer in court. pic.twitter.com/d0RHlCnNh0 I live in South Delhi.The Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like and the shopkeeper the freedom to run his trade.Full stop.
"Delhi isn't Gotham City," Saket Gokhale tweeted, in a reference to the fictional city in Batman comic books.
Referring to news reports that said meat shops in various parts of Delhi were being forced to shut, Mr Gokhale said that the mayor does not wield any executive power to order the shutting down of shops.
