The jewellers protesting against excise duty hike in Union Budget on Saturday stopped trains at Ghaziabad Junction, causing lots of inconvenience to commuters.
In another incident, BJP supported traders wing burnt effigies of former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Mohammad Owaisi.
In the first incident, the jewellers stopped trains at Ghaziabad railway station. The Jewelry traders’ association general secretary Ravi Verma said that over a thousand traders assembled at the Ghaziabad junction and stopped the Aligarh bound EMU train. The traders laid themselves before the train as it stopped at the station.
The traders continued laying themselves on the track from 12: 40 Pm to 1:00 pm Saturday. The traders lifted the continued siege when the senior police and railway officials assured them to apprise the protest to the government.
In another incident, the traders’ body burnt effigy of former union minister Shashi Tharoor. The city president of the youth wing of Udyog Vyapar Mandal Subhash Chhabra said about
200 volunteers of traders’ organization burnt the effigy of Shashi Tharror and Mohammad Owaisi at clock tower GT road.