NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday strongly defended his government’s recent decision to ban the sale and purchase of Halal-certified products in the state, alleging that the money collected through such certifications was being “misused for terrorism, love jihad , and religious conversions.” Speaking at an RSS centenary event, Adityanath said that Halal certification had become a parallel, unregulated system outside government control. “When purchasing any item, check if it has a Halal certification label. We have banned it in UP. Today, no one in Uttar Pradesh will dare to buy or sell it,” he said. The chief minister claimed that agencies issuing such labels had collectively earned around Rs 25,000 crore across the country, despite having

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