new delhi restaurant industry body national restaurant association of india is planning to approach the chief minister of haryana and the home minister in order to safeguard the interest of lawfully running restaurants in the country amidst the kfc row on tuesday as many as 500 meat shops and a outlet of fastfood chain kfc were allegedly shut down forcefully by over 200 shiv sainiks for nine days on account of navratri this is an absolutely unacceptable behaviour it is a failure on the part of states machinery as they have to maintain law and order we cannot be tolerating such hooliganism and sending a representation to the chief minister and home minister to protect the interests of lawfuly run restaurants said rahul singh founder of the beer cafe and honorary secretary of nrai an industry body which claims to represent more than one lakh restaurants across the country according to a pti report acppro of gurgaon police manish sehgal said some meats shops were shut down but they were later opened these shops have commercial licence to sell meat strict action will be taken against those forcing closure of shops illegally said the report further according to an industry expert this incident reflects poorly on the image of gurgaon being a millenium city where a lot of expat population works and live this kind of behaviour is not acceptable in country like india said restaurateur zorawar kalra who runs highly acclaimed restaurants like farzi cafe made in punjab and papaya across major metros of the country i think religion should be definitely respected but you should not force religion on to people it is very important that we understand this forcibly shutting down any thing is not the democratic way of doing things and i dont think it will solve anything he said according to a india today report gautam saini the president of shiv sena gurugram said he asked kfc to cooperate with them in vacating the restaurant kfc however said that they have been fully compliant with the laws of the land as a responsible corporate citizen kfc operates in compliance with the laws of the land we have not received any notification from the authorities on limiting operations during the navratras or tuesdays we would like to reiterate that kfc has the highest respect for the cultural and religious beliefs of all communities and believe that consumers are free to make choices and decisions kfc said in an official statement by varun jain etretail published on mar 30 2017 at 0356 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals