The Confederation of All India Trade (CAIT) has urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh to bring an Ordinance to halt sealing in the national Capital or categorically declare that the Delhi Government is not bringing any Ordinance to resolve the issue.
CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal in a communication sent to Home Minister said the Delhi Government has failed to protect traders from sealing and despite several request, no action has been taken by the Delhi Government so far to stop sealing in Delhi. Therefore, all hopes of traders are now centered towards Union Government to come for rescuing trade and interest of traders in the city.
Khandelwal said that there is an emergency like situation in the city because of dictatorial attitude of Supreme Court appointed Monitoring Committee which is not following any due process of law. In such circumstances, an immediate intervention from the Centre is needed to provide relief.
In its communication, the CAIT also said that the Monitoring Committee is working in an autocratic way throwing away all rights of traders and setting their own rules under the garb of Supreme Court order though MCD Act, 1957 is law of the land having all procedures for any penal action. But the Monitoring Committee is giving deaf ears to prescribed law.
He further said that the traders whose shops were sealed last year are struggling to feed their family. The Monitoring Committee has formulated a complex procedure for de-sealing of eligible shops with mandatory deposition fee of Rs 1 lakh along with de-sealing application. And traders are not able to deposit the fee because of financial constraints, he said. The CAIT has sent the similar communication to Union Urban Development Minister Hardeep Puri.