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Petty shop owners protest against eviction

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE, JULY 22. Members of the Petty Shop Owners' Association affiliated to the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh staged a sit-in protest on the premises of the Mangalore City Corporation here on Thursday. They wanted the health authorities of the corporation to stop the drive to clear petty shops in the city in wake of an increase in the number of cholera cases.

Addressing the protesters, Vishwanath Shetty, president of local unit of the sangh, said the corporation was targeting petty shop owners to cover up its failure to tackle the outbreak of cholera. The corporation had not given the owners any warning about the eviction, he noted.

The Mayor, Purandaradas Kuloor, who received a memorandum from the protesters, promised to consider their case sympathetically.

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