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Traders meet MPs

To represent grievances on sealing drive

New Delhi: Delhi traders on Sunday knocked the doors of the country's lawmakers to represent their grievances on sealing drive on the floor of the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Fifty teams of traders went to the residences of MPs in South Avenue, North Avenue and Meena Bagh to personally apprise them the need for bringing a Constitutional Amendment to protect their shops operating in residential areas from the court-ordered sealing drive.

Prominent trade leaders, including Confederation of All India Traders secretary general Praveen Khandelwal, Rajesh Goyal and Gopal Aggarwal, were part of the delegations.

The traders requested the MPs to rise above party lines and stand with the shopkeepers in the hour of crisis.

Mr. Khandelwal alleged the Centre's claim that the Supreme Court has provided relief to 95 per cent of traders was "baseless" and that the "interim" relief given by the apex court was limited to only one lakh traders.

"More than five lakh business establishments are directly under the clutches of sealing and no relief was granted to them by either the Supreme Court or the Centre," he said.

They were apprehensive about "what will happen after January 31, 2007 when the deadline ends", he added. -- PTI

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