ranchi over 150 street vendors who have been forced to shut their shops after the government imposed section 144 at morhabadi ground following the shootout incident last month took out a candlelight march on sunday demanding an immediate order to allow their reopeningstating that they are unable to earn a single paisa for over a week and are worried for their family the vendors sat on a dharna near the park prime hotel in the evening they took out a candlelight vigilwhen toi spoke to several of the street vendors including elderly women speciallyabled persons as well as widows they said it has become extremely difficult to look after their families as they are the lone bread earnersnitu pandey a 48yearold widow who used to run a snack and a tea stall near the morhabadi football stadium said i am the only bread earner in my family of six after my husband passed away five years ago i have to look after my inlaws my three kids and the only way of livelihood was my stall which is closed for more than nine days now i have nothing left with me to look after my familypandey is also a patient of arthritis and has severe pain in both her legs but she came to the protest venue and was sitting away from the crowdanother woman kiran devi a resident of saraitand said my daughters marriage is scheduled in april and after the closure of my business i am not able to earn a single paisa i used to earn by selling eggs and teasaurabh bharti a specially challenged man from kishoreganj who had recently started his shop after taking a loan of rs 20000 from a family friend is scared whether he will be able to repay the loan i am very scared as i did not know my shop will be closed in such a manner i am not physically fit and cannot go for other jobs i do not know how many days i will be able to survive bharti saidaddressing the media the president of the morhabadi dukandar sangh kumar roshan said we have taken out a candlelight march to request the state government to help us earn our livelihood as we are totally dependent on our daily earnings over 1200 families are affected by the closure of shops and we request chief minister hemant soren to address our woes