new delhi a day after the district administration asked 46 shopkeepers at sarojini nagar market to keep their shops closed for two days for violating covid rules traders have reacted strongly to the movethey approached the union and delhi governments on friday for help arguing that despite cooperating with district officials and issuing identity cards to workers to stop illegal hawkers at the market they are facing actionwe are being targeted unnecessarily and no action is being taken against illegal patris body hawkers freely roaming in the market we request the chief minister to withdraw the order because we also want to celebrate independence day the festival of freedom said kuldeep singh sawhney president of sarojini nagar market association big shops advt claiming that the traders had done nothing wrong sawhney said if there is any confusion we are even ready to have a joint meeting with the officials to clear the facts at least 90 shops have been targeted this time traders claimed the notices were issued on thursday for allegedly encroaching upon public land and not wearing masks earlier the district administration had ordered closing of the market for three days from july 18 to 20 for overcrowding and lack of social distancing on friday strict security was visible in the market in the wake of independence day though the shopkeepers are not responsible for managing the crowd still we are held responsible for lapses this is surprising because no other market is facing the wrath of the district administration in such a manner despite having much more crowd we failed to understand why we are being treated indifferently by the subdivisional magistrates office the association stated in a letter to the union home ministerashok randhawa president of mini market traders association said they had submitted details of all employees and shopkeepers before issuing them identity cards but the number of body hawkers and illegal squatters havent gone down at all he alleged by vibha sharma tnn published on aug 14 2021 at 0856 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app traders sarojini nagar market sarojini nagar market association illegal hawkers delhi news homenewsindustrydelhi sarojini traders cry foul over order to shut shops