 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 16: Calling for a decisive fight against opening of Reliance Retail Stores in Jammu, traders warned the Jammu Kashmir UT Government that if the Reliance Retail stores are allowed to open in Jammu, the traders will protest on a large scale.
Traders Federation Ware House Nehru Market has expressed strong displeasure over the proposal of big companies like Reliance to open stores in Jammu in the retail sector, saying that if this happens then small shopkeepers of Jammu will be ruined and their shops will be closed. Giving seven days ultimatum to the government, the Federation has said that if the Government does not review its decision, the traders will come on the roads, will hold rallies, protest and even sit on hunger strike.
Deepak Gupta, President Traders Federation Ware House Nehru Market Jammu while addressing media said that when the Modi government abolished Article 370, we all celebrated and welcomed it, but in these two years we saw that the small shopkeepers of Jammu are dying out and the big traders of big cities of the country come here to do business. |
