surat as the nationwide strike by jewellers to protest against the one per cent levy of excise duty on jewellery articles entered its 36th day on thursday jewellers embarked on an innovative protest by selling 24 carat pure bhajias and fafdas at parsi sheri at bhagal in the walled city more than a dozen jewellers from parsi sheri jewellery market at bhagal started a bhajia and fafda stall to protest against the excise duty the central governments finance ministry is yet to accept our demand we are on strike for the last 36 days so in order to earn our livelihood we are forced to sell bhajias and fafdas said owner of rajni jewellers at bhagalhe added jewellers themselves made bhajias and fafdas and sold them to customers we did a brisk business on thursday and hope to continue till the central government does away with the levysggems and jewellery committee chairman nainesh patchigar said this is the longestever strike by the jewellers in the country a statelevel meeting of the jewellers was organized at vadodara on thursday and we have decided to continue our strike tnn