Itanagar
After Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) administration directed hotels and restaurants in the district to remove the word ‘beef’ from their signboards, a backlash was seen on social media by locals who claimed that this was the first move toward a beef ban in the state.
The magistrate’s order said that the district administration of Itanagar Capital Region believes in the secular spirit of the Indian Constitution but such open display of the word ‘beef’ on the signboards of hotels and restaurants may hurt the sentiments of some sections of the community and may create animosity between different groups.
Clarifying the now viral order directing all hotels and restaurants to remove signboards with the word ‘beef’ on them, the extra assistant commissioner (EAC) of Naharlagun town, Tamo Dada, on Thursday said the order was issued by his office as a “preventive measure so that the people do not make a religious issue out of it in the future”.