In the video, the elderly hawker is seen trying to hold on to and protect some of the handbags he was selling from a BBMP marshal who is seen pushing and pulling the hapless man in an attempt to seize the bags from him.
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“We have complained to all the authorities concerned against the encroachments on the footpath but in vain. The BBMP Health Inspector visits the spot and seizes LPG cylinders from eateries on the footpath in the morning but returns those LPG cylinders to the eateries by evening after receiving money from them,’’ says Surendra Reddy, a resident.
“The BBMP with no awareness about the Street Vendors Act have evicted thousands of street vendors across the city. We demand the BBMP return the material seized from the street vendors at the time of eviction and allow the street vendors to return to the same spots to continue their business. We are contemplating to go on an indefinite agitation if the BBMP authorities fail to meet our demands,’’ said S Babu, president, Federation of Bengaluru District Street Vendors Associations.
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, along with BBMP authorities and Jayanagar MLA CK Ramamurthy, visited the shopping complex on Tuesday. The Chief Commissioner found many shop owners occupying passages of the shopping complex, causing a lot of inconvenience to the customers coming there for shopping.