Street vendors make merry, as protestors gather outside CM’s office
18 Jan 2014 5:03 AM IST
In the light of such events, street food vendors have also come up to reap the benefit of such gatherings.
A sexagenarian vendor, who wished anonymity, said, ‘Sale for my moong ka laddu has increased several-fold. There are a lot of people here’. ‘Usually I had to wander from one place to another to sell my ladoos but now I have several customers at one place from morning till evening’, he added.
He is not alone. There are fruit juice sellers and kachori vendors in front of the main road opposite the secretariat. These vendors are providing refreshment to protesters and many were seen soothing their throats with street food after going on a spree of slogan-shouting.
‘This is for the first time protesters are here. I could not remember such scenes. The protesters were never allowed to sit here, as most of them were denied entry one kilometer before secretariat by the police,’ said a senior officer of Delhi secretariat.
The protesters, mostly contractual teachers and health assistants, are demanding permanent jobs from the government. On Wednesday, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal came to pacify these protesters. ‘Your demands are genuine. Give us time and we will make the posts permanent,’ assured Kejriwal.
But the protesters are not convinced. ‘Aaj karo, urgent karo, humko permanent karo (do it today, do it urgently and make us permanent)’, was the slogan used by protesters. Most of them claim that they were part of the struggle during AAP’s movement. There is heavy deployment of Delhi police and paramilitary forces in the area.
A sexagenarian vendor, who wished anonymity, said, ‘Sale for my moong ka laddu has increased several-fold. There are a lot of people here’. ‘Usually I had to wander from one place to another to sell my ladoos but now I have several customers at one place from morning till evening’, he added.
He is not alone. There are fruit juice sellers and kachori vendors in front of the main road opposite the secretariat. These vendors are providing refreshment to protesters and many were seen soothing their throats with street food after going on a spree of slogan-shouting.
‘This is for the first time protesters are here. I could not remember such scenes. The protesters were never allowed to sit here, as most of them were denied entry one kilometer before secretariat by the police,’ said a senior officer of Delhi secretariat.
The protesters, mostly contractual teachers and health assistants, are demanding permanent jobs from the government. On Wednesday, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal came to pacify these protesters. ‘Your demands are genuine. Give us time and we will make the posts permanent,’ assured Kejriwal.
But the protesters are not convinced. ‘Aaj karo, urgent karo, humko permanent karo (do it today, do it urgently and make us permanent)’, was the slogan used by protesters. Most of them claim that they were part of the struggle during AAP’s movement. There is heavy deployment of Delhi police and paramilitary forces in the area.
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