Sealings will resume in a tense Capital from Wednesday. The monitoring committee finally announced that sealings would resume.
Protesting traders turn violent during bandh
NEW DELHI: Sealings will resume in a tense Capital from Wednesday. After an inconclusive meeting earlier on Tuesday, the monitoring committee finally announced that sealings would resume.
Sources have said that sealings may be carried out in category A&B areas like South Extension. “Though there are no clear orders as yet, posh categories may finally have to face sealings. Of course this depends on police security that will be provided,” said an official at the MCD.
Traders meanwhile are hopping mad. “Though we have withdrawn the bandh and will keep our shops open, there will be protests. Wherever sealings are being carried out, we will oppose it as shops are our only source of livelihood,” said Praveen Khandelwal, President, Delhi Traders Association.
Though the majority of shops in the affected markets like South Extension, Green Park and Malviya Nagar amongst others remained shut on Tuesday, markets like Connaught Place which are not covered in the sealing gambit remained functional.
There were sporadic incidences of violence in the city especially in East and West Delhi. At one place, the police had to use water cannons to disperse the crowd. Traders also resorted to stone pelting, sloganeering and breaking window panes and windshields of buses. Trash cans were also set on fire. Traders also clashed with the police in areas like Green Park. The police detained three hundred traders.
The bandh threw ordinary Delhiite’s life out of gear. Students could not reach school on time and office goers had a traumatic time. Suman Singh, a fashion student, had a harrowing time reaching her institute at Hauz Khas.
“It was imperative to reach my institute on time. However, with long traffic jams on Aurobindo Marg, I had to take a long detour. By the time I reached the institute, it was closed for the day,” she said.
Sanjana Sinha, a housewife was so scared by the bandh call that she did not send her kids to the school. “I remember how buses were stopped and burnt by mobs last time during the three day bandh,” she said.
Angry at traders for holding the city to ransom, Sanjana said they should find some other form of protest. Neeraj Gupta, a software professional, says he wasn’t able to buy his daily provisions and had to skip breakfast.
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