Women vendors protest
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, November 26 2017:
A tense situation erupted at Thoubal Keithel today after the women vendors of the Keithel started destroying the newly erected pillars and supports meant for the construction of a new floor and shop plot in the space above the Keithel complex which had been left empty by Thoubal Municipal Council (TMC) as a means to let natural and ambient light into the market complex.
According to one of the protesting women vendors, TMC tried to construct a similar structure in the front .
He also conveyed that his portion of the market complex some time back but quickly retraced its step after the women vendor protested the move.
The TMC started building the structure in the inner part of the market complex again, but the women vendors will never agree to such construction, she added.
She further urged the authority concerned to refrain from taking up construction works at night when the vendors have left the market complex and threatened to launch intense agitation of the authority fail to heed the warning.