Pantha Chowk<\/a> area said all these years they had been open during the Yatra. They said they had fulfilled all procedures required yet were \u2018forced\u2019 to shut shops.<\/p>\nThe protesting shopkeepers said that the route that Yatris will use is far away from their shops and yet they are being barred to open their shops. \u201cThere are at least 60 shops that have been closed down. We knocked on the doors of every official, but nobody listened to us,\u201d they said and requested LG Manoj Sinha to intervene in the matter. (KNT)<\/p>\n
Dozens of shopkeepers on Wednesday appealed to LG Government to reconsider their decision of closed down their shops in the Pantha Chowk area of Srinagar outskirts till the end of the Shri Amarnath Yatra.<\/p>\n
Shopkeepers mostly dealing with spare parts business assembled in Press Enclave Srinagar and registered a protest against the decision to bar them from opening shops in wake of Shri Amarnath Yatra.<\/p>\n
The 43-day pilgrimage to the cave shrine will begin from twin base camps in Kashmir on Thursday (June 30) and will conclude on August 11<\/p>\n
However, the SSP of Srinagar says, \u2018No order to shut down shops anywhere in Srinagar\u2019, SSP Srinagar refuting the claims of the shopkeepers.\u00a0 Then why are they protesting and who issued this order?<\/p>\n
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