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Seeks intervention to give relief to 45,000-odd traders

VEXED ISSUE: DPCC delegation briefing the media after a meeting with the Monitoring Committee on Wednesday. Photo: V. Sudershan

NEW DELHI: A delegation led by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ram Babu Sharma met the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee here on Wednesday and sought its intervention to give relief to 45,000-odd traders who face sealing of their commercial from November 1 under court orders.

Mr. Sharma also declared that the Congress would not ask its cadres to take to streets but would support the bandh call given by traders to demand an end to sealing and demolitions in the Capital.

Talking to newspersons, Mr. Sharma said he along with some Congress MPs from Delhi and senior leaders had met Monitoring Committee head Bhure Lal and impressed upon him the need to allow the traders to carry out their activities till the notification of the new Master Plan for Delhi-2021. The delegation urged Mr. Bhure Lal to take into account the humanitarian aspect of the whole situation and impress upon the Supreme Court to provide relief to all sections. The delegation also included former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler and Karol Bagh MP Krishna Tirath.

Mr. Sharma demanded that the Master Plan for Delhi-2021 be notified without any further delay by January 31, 2007, and hoped that some solution would be found to give relief to the 45,000-odd traders of Delhi. He said it should also be ensured that the five-lakh traders covered by the September 7 and September 15 notifications are not asked to file affidavits before the January 31 deadline fixed by the Court.

He claimed that with the implementation of the new Master Plan for Delhi, nearly 90 per cent of the traders would get automatic relief as all the 2,200-odd streets covered by the two notifications would get validity for mixed land and commercial use. Interestingly, Mr. Sharma also pitched in for the banned industrial units and demanded that the Government create a special zone for such units in the Capital.

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