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Bulldozers target 2 MG Road

Staff Reporter

Fashion designers panic at the sight of demolition squad

FEAR OF BULLDOZER: Agitated fashion designers and shop owners of 2 MG Road before the MCD demolition drive in the area on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Two days after entering the Capital's fashion hub on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road with its demolition squad, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Friday targeted yet another illegally built fashion mall -- 2 MG Road -- even as the razing of 1 MG Road mall continued for the third consecutive day.

Amid a strong police presence, the drive started in the morning with a bulldozer and labourers demolishing the remaining portions of 1 MG Road mall. Gas cutters and drillers were also pressed into action. It was only after 3 p.m. that the squad turned its attention towards 2 MG Road, asking shop-owners and those employed there to vacate the complex where they had been offering prayers since Thursday.

The entry of the demolition squad led to panic among fashion designers and workers who protested that they were being wrongly targeted by the civic body. When their anguished pleas fell on deaf ears, they sought some time to remove their belongings from the complex.

Though they had already removed most of their stuff in the past couple of days, some items were still left inside the stores.

However, the MCD officials decided to go ahead with the demolition at MG 2. It took around an hour for the bulldozer to pull down the grand glass and metal facade of the mall.

The civic body will resume action at both the malls on Saturday. Both these shopping complexes till now housed around 100 outlets that included shops of more than two-dozen India's leading fashion designers including Rohit Bal, Ritu Beri, Aki Narula, Rana Gill, Poonam Bhagat, Tarun Tahiliani, Rohit Gandhi, Rahul Khanna, Ashish Soni, Manish Arora, Rina Dhaka, Suneet Verma, Vidhi Singhania, Mandira Wirk, Anju Modi, Manav Gangwani, Ashima Singh, Leena and Nikki Mahajan.

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