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Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 03 2010:
Ceasing all works of the day, vendors and shopkeepers of the Khwairamband Bazar and its surrounding market places today staged sit-in protest at their respective marketing places to register a strong protest against hiking of prices of goods in the state.
At the concluding part of the protest, members of the organising body the Khwairamband Keithel Sinpham and Saktam Kanba Lup submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister drawing his attention to fix and declare the price index of the goods within 15 day.
Women vendors taking part in the sit-in protest lamented that businessmen are selling goods to the prices fixed by them and government is sending them free hand to do so.
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They also demanded not to take advantage of the uncertainty on the national highways, the arteries of the people of the state.
At the concluding part of the sit-in protest, women vendors also marched a rally at about 4 pm targeting the Chief Ministers' Bungalow.
Police blocked them at BT Road at the start.
After a brief heated exchange of words, police allowed some representatives of the organising lup to proceed and submit the memorandum.
In the memorandum, the women venders demanded ban on the mushrooming up grey marketers openly selling vehicle fuel on the road sides and cooking gas at higher rates even though authorized dealers and agencies are not distributing the same to the customers.
If their demands of checking the prices of goods and grey marketers of fuel and cooking gas are fulfilled with the next 15 day, they will launch protest of various kinds, the threatened the government.
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