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`Provide relief'

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI : Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh on Wednesday criticised the Centre for failing to save shops and businesses of lakhs of traders in the Capital from sealing and favoured a Constitutional amendment for providing permanent relief to them. Mr. Singh said the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006, should be brought under the Ninth Schedule and a Constitutional amendment made to end this impasse. "This should be done after getting the matter examined by a legal expert committee."

"In a democracy, people's aspirations are supreme. Keeping in mind their demands, Parliament passed a resolution to save livelihoods of traders, but the Government failed to fulfil its commitment. We need to respect people's demands, otherwise there would be a serious law and order problem," he said.

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