surat textile traders who wanted to open their shops on the 12th day of their indefinite strike against goods and services tax gst on friday were prevented by mobs at raghukul stm millennium abhishek and a few other textile markets in the city the mobs comprised of groups of around 50 people each each group moved around the textile markets on ring road salabatpura and sahara darwaja to see if any trader was trying to open his shop the groups were shouting slogans against union finance minister arun jaitley and navsari mp cr paatil they were also shouting slogans against progst traders who had approached city police seeking security for opening their shops on saturday meanwhile textile yuva brigade tyb volunteers visited all major textile markets on ring road and told market managements that they will register their strong protest against the shop owners who wanted to open their shops under police protection devkishan managhani textile trader and former president of federation of surat textile traders association fostta said we are concerned about antisocial elements joining our agitation we are also concerned about our business colleagues who are keen to open their shops big traders are playing a divide and rule politics and this will only worsen the situationlalit sharma member of tyb said if the traders want to open their shops they are most welcome but they should think of the rest of their community members who are still standing firm against the gst we will not clash with the police but will give the traders some money and food as a part of our protestmeanwhile surat textile market stm management on ring road issued a communication to all the traders having shops in the market asking them to reach there at around 930am on saturday the market will reopen as the police authorities have given the management an assurance of extra deployment of the personnel there the traders at stm market will arrive at 930am and open their shops we will open the shops and continue our agitation for simplification of the gst we cant compromise on our business said a textile trader at stm