Why are meat shops shut in Gurugram?

The Sanyunkt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti (SHSS), an organisation of 22 Hindu groups, including the Shiv Sena and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), ‘forced’ local meat shops and non-vegetarian dhabas to shut on the first day of Navratri on Wednesday, and the same continued on Thursday also.

While the local police claimed that they did so only in Sector 14, where four activists were nabbed for rioting, the Samiti declared their ‘win’ by getting over 300 shops shut. The Samiti claimed to have made 10 senas that went across the city getting shops shut. “We had given the administration enough time to take action to uphold Hindu sentiments but they took our warnings as hoax claims. We got the shops shut today to show our power. They asked us not to oppose namaaz in open during Ramzaan and we did not but today, when we wanted the favour back in Navratri, the administration turned a blind eye. We did not resort to any vandalism or ruckus but firmly requested and got the job done,” Mahaveer Bhardwaj, convenor of the Samiti shared with media. The meat sellers claimed they were threatened and roughed up.