By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Jharpada Ganesh Bazaar Byabasayi Sangha have filed FIRs against the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) , Bhubaneswar Development Authority(BDA) and General Administration Department of the State Government alleging illegal eviction drive that left hundreds of small time vendors and traders in dark.
Sources said, some 64 traders led by BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan and local BJP corporator , have filed FIRs against BMC, BDA and GA department at Laxmi Sagar police station alleging loot and seeking rehabilitation and adequate compensation from them.
As many as three houses, 14 godowns, 25 polythene sheds and 97 shops – all tin structures – were razed during an early morning drive on Friday. Over 50 wooden/tin cabins were also pulled down by the joint enforcement squad of BDA and BMC in presence of Commissionerate Police during the drive despite stiff resistance from the shopkeepers and vendors.
BJP leaders, however, continued to dub the eviction drive as a political vendetta as their party’s Dharitri Jena won the corporator seat from Ward 33.
