Angered over Dehradun district administration’s anti-encroachment drive during which JCBs were used to demolish businessman establishments, Doon Udyog Vyapar Mandal has called a 24-hour Dehradun bandh on Friday. Stating this, secretary of Doon Udyog Vyapar Mandal Sunil Masson said on Thursday evening that the administration should have given prior notices to the traders before launching drives. “Businessmen were not given enough time to shift their wares. Many lost their properties consequently,” he added.
He further said that a delegation of the traders had met the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Wednesday evening and requested him to stop such drive. “Rawat had assured us that such drive would be launched after the rainy season was over,” he said. He, however, held the state urban development minister Madan Kaushik responsible for the drive, dubbing his attitude as autocratic.
