Medicine traders get BJP support

PROTESTING AGAINST the arrest of two whole-sale medicine traders, hundreds of drug dealers took out a procession and handed over a memorandum to the deputy chief medical officer in the presence of the city magistrate at UHM hospital on Saturday.

PROTESTING AGAINST the arrest of two whole-sale medicine traders, hundreds of drug dealers took out a procession and handed over a memorandum to the deputy chief medical officer in the presence of the city magistrate at UHM hospital on Saturday.

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Interestingly, the wholesale drug association today found support of two Bhartiya Janata Party leaders, namely former member of parliament and Udyog Vyapar Mandal leader Shyam Bihari Mishra and present MLA from Generalganj Salil Vishnoi.

The wholesale medicine dealers have demanded immediate release of the two chemists arrested from the Birhana road market a few days back by the drug department officials.

Drug association leaders in the memorandum threatened the administration of closing down all retail medical shops from Monday onwards if their demands were not accepted by Sunday.

Talking to the HT, Shyam Bihari Mishra said, “If the two arrested drug dealers are not released immediately then the Udyog Vyapar Mandal will consider closing all the markets in the city.”

Earlier, nearly 200 members of the drug dealers’ association reached UHM hospital around 3 pm and staged a dharna at the gate. In the absence of the additional director and the chief medical officer, deputy CMO Dr MC Agarwal accepted the memorandum on behalf of senior officials.