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| Ravinder Raina inaugurates Mass bhandara at Ware House | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 9: A mass bhandara was organized at Ware House-Nehru Market Jammu today on the occasion of Durga Ashtami, wherein a large number of people including all traders participated with great enthusiasm.
Ravider Raina, President BJP JKUT unit inaugurated the bhandara in the presence of Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor JMC, Purnima Sharma. Dy. Mayor, Kavinder Gupta, former Dy. CM, Kulbir Honda, SP City and Mamta Sharma, SP South. All the office bearers of bazaar Associations also graced the occasion.
Deepak Gupta, President of the Traders Federation Ware House-Nehru Market Jammu and other office bearers honoured the guests by presenting Chunri to them. The bhandara was opened for all. A large number of people and commuters took 'parsad' in the Bhandara.
While speaking on the occasion, Sh. Deepak Gupta, highlighted various welfare activities organized by the Federation for the poor and downtrodden. He also exhorted the well off people to come forward and be a part of this initiative taken by the Federation. Raising the issue of GST, Deepak Gupta said that when the GST was not being implemented in Jammu and Kashmir, the traders of Jammu came on roads demanding its implementation. He said that warehouse traders pay Rs 300 crore tax annually, but today the GST department is harrasing them the most. Traders being fined lakhs of rupees for small clerical mistakes.
Raising the issue of opening of Reliance stores in Jammu, Deepak Gupta said that if these stores opened in Jammu, the small traders of Jammu will be ruined. Gupta said that with the opening of One Best Price, all the small businessmen around it were destroyed and with the opening of Reliance Stores across the city, the whole of Jammu would be in the same condition. He demanded Reliance to stop Reliance from opening stores in Jammu. On this occasion, Deepak Gupta also raised the demand to give ownership rights of shops to the shopkeepers of the warehouse and Nehru Market and also to provide suitable land for godowns.
On this occasion, BJP President Ravinder Raina assured the traders of Jammu that he will arrange their meeting with Financial Commissioner Atul Dhullu and GST officers very soon to solve all their problems they are facing regarding GST. Raina said that BJP has always stood with the traders and will walk shoulder to shoulder with the traders in future also. |
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