Tribune News Service

Sangrur, May 12

Fed up with the inadequate timings for selling vegetables, vendors today threw vegetables on the Sangrur-Patiala road in Bhawanigarh and also blocked the road for some time.

They have announced intensifying their agitation if the government didn’t allow them to sell vegetables throughout the day.

“Liquor vends are allowed to remain open all day, but we are allowed to open our shops from 5 am to 9 am and 4 pm to 6 pm. The police are harassing us and they also thrashed some vegetable sellers,” alleged Kartar Singh, a seller.

Balwinder Singh, another protester, said: “We are already under huge debt, while the latest decision to allow us to sell vegetables only for few hours has aggravated our problems. We purchase vegetables every morning and if we are not able to sell them all within 24 hours, they become stale and as a result rot.”

Bhawanigarh SHO Gurdeep Singh Sandhu said they were only implementing the guidelines issued by the government. “We have conveyed the resentment of vegetable sellers to officials concerned and they may be allowed to meet senior officers on Thursday,” he added.