not only students and techies joined hands with anna but over 2500 traders too joined the protest by observing bandh for a day on wednesday the buzzing streets of chickpet balepet and avenue road were deserted as all shops were shut its one of the major trading hubs which includes textile plastic gold hardware paint wholesale shops bookstores and many electronic goods workshops apart from spare parts outletswe condemn annas arrest and the way the union government is ignoring recommendations made by annas team we protest against the way thing are being handled said manandi suresh fkcci member and former president of wholesale textile merchants association the merchants in this area have incurred loss of about rs 30 crore as the transaction of goods was suspended for a day a minimum of rs 200 crore is transacted at these trading centres in this area every day the worst affected were labourers here but they didnt question their employers as they understood it was for a cause suresh addedmany shopkeepers pointed out they are under pressure from different quarters to pay bribes bbmp police bescom and any registration work concerning property there is no letup in corruption we experience in our lives everywhere informal demands are made for money even chai shop boys are asked to pay small amounts to keep their shop open pushcarts are allowed only if they pay the right people for any work that needs to be done as a trader you come across officials seeking money how do we fight this asked a tradermany jewellers complain they are under pressure to ensure certain needs are met theyre under the scanner because stolen gold also makes its way to some outlets here naturally they come under the police scanner keen on tracking stolen property