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Mukhi wants Delhi to go U.P. way

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Following in the footsteps of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati who has forced big retail players to shut shop in the State, senior Delhi BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi has demanded a similar ban on multinational companies and large industrial houses in Delhi.

‘Ban MNCs’

Prof. Mukhi, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, urged the Centre and the Delhi Government to effect a similar ban.

“These big players are only trying to establish a monopoly by first eliminating the smaller players and then charging rates as per their wish,” he alleged. He said the day was not far away when big industrialists and multi-national companies would capture the market of vegetables and daily consumables and small shopkeepers will have no means of livelihood.

Prof. Mukhi claimed that initially these stores give items at cheap rates to attract customers by booking the losses to other sister concerns of their unit. “But after capturing the market they start raising the rates at will. The way in which the MNCs and big industrialists have started trading in vegetables and items of daily use, it is an alarming sign for the small shopkeepers,” he added.

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