Cloth shop owners in various parts of Gujarat on Tuesday decided to continue their indefinite strike against five per cent GST levied on textiles, a day after police baton-charged protesting members of their association in Surat.
The Maskati market in Ahmedabad, a major textile centre in the state, wore a deserted look as around 25,000-30,000 traders observed a shutdown, protesting “police high-handedness” with agitating traders in Surat.
They said the shops will remain shut indefinitely till the time their demands on GST were not met by the Government.
“In Ahmedabad, around 25,000-30,000 cloth shop owners have gone on an indefinite strike. Police action on protesters in Surat is unacceptable. Instead of meeting our demands, the Government is applying force to suppress us,” said Ritesh Shah, a textile shop owner in Maskati market.
Surat’s textile markets too remained closed, with street deserted.