MEAT SELLERS
March 1st, 2017
Meat sellers in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh are on indefinite strike to protest the new Hindu nationalist state government’s forced closure of slaughterhouses and meat shops. Traders allege the government action specifically targets Uttar Pradesh’s minority Muslim community. “We are facing harassment,” Mohammad Yusuf Qureshi, state president of All India Jamaat-ul-Quraish, a meat traders’ association, told GlobalMeatNews. The problems have emerged following the victory by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Indian Prime Minister ...
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