Tanners express concern as new chief minister takes over in Uttar Pradesh
28/03/2017
Yogi Adityanath, a politician and Hindu priest, was chosen as the state’s new chief minister, its head of government, on March 19. He represents the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been described by the New York Times as a Hindu nationalist “firebrand”.
His government’s immediate actions have included a crackdown on slaughterhouses and meat outlets in Uttar Pradesh and tanners in the region say they have already begun to notice an effect on the supply of hides and skins.
They have also spoken of their fear that moves against the meat industry and its by-products could even lead to the closure of tanneries.
Uttar Pradesh’s leather industry includes the important cluster at Jajmau in Kanpur, which has as many as 400 tanneries. The nearby clusters of Bantha and Unnao are smaller, with 25 and 15 operations respectively.
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