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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
Workers at the Koyambedu market in Chennai, seeking to know their future, as shops were closed on Monday in response to a bandh called by traders against introduction of Value-Added Tax. - Photo: K. Pichumani
While a majority of provisions and grocery shops downed the shutters, petrol pumps, medical shops, electronic shops, hotels and petty shops were kept open. The Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangankalin Peravai, which sponsored the protest, claimed that about 95 per cent of the shops remained closed. Though a rice merchants' association and a hotels' association announced that they would not participate, a number of wholesale and retail rice shops in the State, remained closed. Members of the peravai would participate in a rally in New Delhi on April 8, and the future course of action would be decided then. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry said a majority of shops in the State did not participate in the bandh. Reports here indicated that the response differed from region to region and there was pressure from both sides on the small traders.
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