A year after the Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) stirred controversy when it demanded that slaughterhouses be shut for the eight-day Jain festival Paryushan, the BJP-led civic body has decided to go soft on the issue. When the proposal for the ban came up in the corporation again this year, the BJP moved that it would only seek for a two-day closure of slaughterhouses for Paryushan, which begins on August 29.

MNS party workers sold chicken to protest the meat ban in Mira-Bhayander, last year. File pic