Attempt to evict Sunday market at Bama Nagar stalled as vendors oppose with AITUC support

High play prevailed on the Bama Nagar-P and T Nagar Main Road arsenic a ample posse of constabulary unit were deployed to evict the roadworthy broadside vegetable/fruits vendors astatine the Sunday market.

On September 28, the Madurai Corporation assembly had passed a solution to region the Sunday marketplace from the existing determination and relocate it to Uchaparambumedu-Tirupalai EB Colony.

However, erstwhile Corporation officials from portion 1 arrived astatine the determination successful Ward 6, hostility mounted since forenoon. As merchants from acold and wide reached the spot and started preparations to show their produce, the officials announced them to vacate and determination to the Tirupalai EB Colony.

AITUC affiliated members led by Nanda Singh held talks with the officials and said that they had not been hindrance to immoderate of the residents. Hence, they intelligibly mentioned that they would not move.

Any effort to evict them would crook dangerous, the merchants said and added that that they would edifice to roadworthy blockade.

As nationalist excessively gathered, the officials blocked some sides of the roadworthy with a immense roadworthy roller machines preventing radical from entering the market.

Though the officials maintained that they were lone executing the Corporation council’s solution and urged the vendors to determination to the caller location, Mr. Nanda Singh said that they sold vegetables and not ganja to beryllium arrested. The wordy altercations turned into heated arguments and the vendors challenged the officials to evict them.

Finally, astatine astir 6.30 p.m., the officials near the spot and the constabulary unit lifted the barricades allowing the radical to participate the market.

A elder authoritative said that the Corporation had resolved unanimously to relocate the Sunday market. However, with the Mayor and the 5 portion seat persons having quit, the officials had nary different option, but execute the resolution.

“We had fixed clip to the vendors and lone erstwhile the solution was withdrawn, they tin continue,” the authoritative explained.

Meanwhile, the merchants said that they would springiness a petition to the Collector astatine the grievance time connected Monday.