Yogi Adityanath's meat ban campaign defies logic and economics

Within four days of the state government formation, four licensed abattoirs were closed

Uttar Pradesh’s (UP’s) new chief minister, who officially styles himself Yogi Adityanath, may urgently need a crash course in basic economics before the forces he has unleashed with his campaign to close abattoirs inflict more damage to the state’s economy. Reports increasingly suggest that a campaign, ostensibly against illegal abattoirs, has degenerated into an all-out, overt assault on a particular community, the Muslims, who own and run the bulk of the state’s 30-odd legal slaughterhouses and thousands of unlicensed ones. Far from limiting their activities to unlicensed abattoirs, the authorities have expanded the ambit of their activities to legal ones,