Mandi shopkeepers protest Khadi product exhibition

Tribune News Service

Mandi, January 11

Shopkeepers of Indira Market here staged a protest against the district administration today demanding the removal of the exhibition of Khadi products from the top floor of the market. They downed shutters to express their resentment against the district administration.

The HP Khadi and Village Industries Board has set up stalls for the exhibition of Khadi products on the top floor of Indira Market with the permission of the district administration. The stalls set up on January 9 would continue to be there till January 22.

Ashok Kumar, president of Beopar Mandal Indira Maket Mandi, said, “The setting up of stalls for Khadi products at Indira Market is directly impacting their businesses. We urge the district administration to remove these stalls and shift them elsewhere”.

However, the district administration seems to be in no mood to pay heed to the shopkeepers.