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After meat ban, Rajasthan cancels Bakr-Id holiday
September 14, 2015
In the middle of a row over a meat ban for a
Jain fasting festival, a government order in Rajasthan has stirred more
controversy.
Days after announcing a meat ban, Rajasthan has ordered schools and
colleges to prepare for blood donation camps on September 25, to mark
the birth anniversary of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, an icon of the BJP and
its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, reports NDTV.
The day coincides
with the Muslim festival of Bakr-Id, which is a holiday. But, the Vasundhara Raje government has instructed colleges not to declare a holiday on the day.
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