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MUMBAI: Even as Mumbai is limping back to normal after MNS-instigated violence against north Indians, sporadic incidents have been reported in the city. Sharma Textiles at Matunga’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Municipal Market was attacked by a group on Wednesday. At Oshiwara, two autorickshaws were set afire on Tuesday night. The flames were put out by locals after a woman raised an alarm. The police, however, said the incident had nothing to do with the tensions incited by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. A police officer said the outfit had no presence in the neighbourhood. But Congress spokesman Sanjay Nirupam said the MNS was responsible for the incident. Earlier on Tuesday, actor Manoj Tiwari’s house was attacked. In the incident at Sharma Textiles in the Lal Bahadur Shastri municipal market, young men, their faces covered with handkerchiefs, descended on the shop at 1.15 p.m. and started throwing down stacks of doormats and towels, even as a number of customers were watching. “The intruders told us to close the shop and get out of here,” said Indran Naidu Topalan, shop assistant, who rushed to call the police. “Don’t do business here,” the group shouted as it threw goods on the pavement, before rushing across the road and escaping in taxis. It also tried to a hit small boy who is a help in the shop, Topalan said. “I think we were targeted because the name of the shop is written in big red letters outside,” said Prem Narain Singh, owner of the shop which has been functioning in the market for the past 40 years. He was not in the shop at the time of the incident. There are 200 shops in the market, most of them run by north and south Indians. Mr. Singh, who himself was born in Mumbai and whose family has been living at Matunga for the past 75 years, says that even when Mumbai burned during the 1992-93 riots there was no trouble at Matunga, which has a large south Indian community. Even the Shiv Sena did not do anything of this sort, he said. “I can’t understand why this is happening.” The incident at Sharma Textiles has scared the north Indian shop owners in the market. “If this goes on we may have to sell [our shops] and leave. We also have a right to this city. These people are targeting us for no reason at all,” said 31-year-old Pradeep Upadhyay, whose family has been living in Mumbai for the past 90 years. No security during daytimeAccording to Suresh Rasam, municipal markets inspector, Matunga, during daytime there is no real security though a police chowky is close by. This is the first time such an incident has taken place here. On Sunday just before the Third Front rally was held at Shivaji Park, street vendors and taxi drivers were assaulted near Dadar’s Plaza cinema. Many of them closed their shops for two days. Shivaji Kamble, who has been running a shop for 40 years on the pavement near the cinema, said things got out of hand on Sunday and most of the small shopkeepers left the place. Many of them were street vendors selling tea or snacks. Kripa Shankar Singh, former Congress Home Minister, told The Hindu that two autorickshaws were burnt in the suburb of Jogeshwari at Anand Nagar on Tuesday night. Poser to Narayan RaneA delegation from the Uttar Bharatiya Sangh on Wednesday met Revenue Minister Narayan Rane, who gave the assurance action would be taken against those who indulged in violence. The delegation, which asked why no action was being taken against the culprits, pointed out that MNS leader Raj Thackeray attended a reception hosted by Mumbai Police Commissioner D.N. Jadhav on Tuesday night.
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