People are facing difficulties to purchase ornaments following ongoing strike of the Jewellers’ association. The members of Jewellers’ Association of Uttaranchal (JAU), who have been continuing with their stir for the past 27 days against the Centre slapping 1 per cent excise duty on the non-silver ornaments, said their stir would continue till the Centre rolls back the excise duty.
Marriage season approaching nearer, the people continue to face difficulty to purchase ornaments with jewellery shops in the city and across the State remaining closed due to continuing sit of members of JAU.
The protesters took out a bike rally from Dehradun to Herbertpur where they had tried to jam the highway. Additional police forces were deployed at protest site in Herbertpur. Police and the protesters were involved in heated arguments after police asked them to withdraw. The cops warned the agitators of facing tough consequences if they did not withdraw, citing the President’s Rule that was enforced on Sunday.
One of the protesters accused of Centre BJP leadership for sitting idle. Moreover five protesters- Anup Baduni, Qurban Ali, Sachin Karnwal, Gaurab Rastogi and Sidheshwar Satara continued to sit on the rely stir going on for the past 20 days at protest site.