Employees of Bihar State Cooperative Marketing Union Limited (Biscomaun) were seen wearing helmets while selling onions at Patna and Ara to protect themselves from possible public outrage on Saturday.
The Biscomaun employees said they took the step as the administration failed to provide police protection to them. “Crowd management was difficult as people stood in long queues to buy onions at Rs 35 per kg,” said a salesman of Biscomaun. The Biscomaun had started selling onions at subsidized rates from November 22 in a bid to provide relief to people from soaring prices. After Patna district administration asked Biscomaun on Wednesday to close its counters in front of the Biscomaun tower citing traffic congestion, the apex cooperative body started selling onions through 10 mobile vans. However, it will stop selling onions in the city from Sunday.
“Only poor people marrying off their daughters will get onions till December 4. They will have to produce wedding card to avail facility,” Biscomaun chairman Sunil Kumar Singh said. He said clashes broke out near Kumhrar and Pataliputra in Patna and at Ara as people jostled to buy onions at Rs 35 per kg. “Though we informed district administration, cops were nowhere to be seen to manage the crowd,” Singh added. He said Jharkhand Mukti Morcha complained to Election Commission about violation of model code of conduct.
Source: Toi Mumbai dated 2019-12-01
The Biscomaun employees said they took the step as the administration failed to provide police protection to them. “Crowd management was difficult as people stood in long queues to buy onions at Rs 35 per kg,” said a salesman of Biscomaun. The Biscomaun had started selling onions at subsidized rates from November 22 in a bid to provide relief to people from soaring prices. After Patna district administration asked Biscomaun on Wednesday to close its counters in front of the Biscomaun tower citing traffic congestion, the apex cooperative body started selling onions through 10 mobile vans. However, it will stop selling onions in the city from Sunday.
“Only poor people marrying off their daughters will get onions till December 4. They will have to produce wedding card to avail facility,” Biscomaun chairman Sunil Kumar Singh said. He said clashes broke out near Kumhrar and Pataliputra in Patna and at Ara as people jostled to buy onions at Rs 35 per kg. “Though we informed district administration, cops were nowhere to be seen to manage the crowd,” Singh added. He said Jharkhand Mukti Morcha complained to Election Commission about violation of model code of conduct.
Source: Toi Mumbai dated 2019-12-01
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