The president of east Delhi’s Ghazipur vegetable market association has registered a complaint against Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia of intimidat-ing him with words and gestures during the deputy CM’s official visit in the market on Saturday.
The complaint has been registered in the Ghazipur police station and the police are looking into it.
Surender Goswami, president of the association also wrote in his complaint that Sisodia’s behaviour was “dictatorial” towards him and other traders.
The incident happened between 8 and 9 am at the Ghazipur fruit and vegetable market when during an official visit Sisodia was interacting with the market traders.
According to Goswami, Sisodia lost his cool when Goswami raised the matter of a loan which the market traders had taken up from banks and started arguing with him.
“I was telling him the difficulties lot of traders were facing in repaying the loan when suddenly he started yelling at me,” said Goswami.
“I tried to reason out with him but he accused me of talking a lot. Then he threatened me that he will see me later and will cancel my license also,” Goswami added.
Goswami further said that Sisodia also asked his personal security officer to click photos of the association president, following which the traders started protesting against the deputy CM.
Scared by the whole episode, Goswami went to the Ghazipur police station and registered a complaint against the deputy CM.
“Being the deputy CM of Delhi, he is in a position of power. After today’s (Saturday) incident I am feeling concerned about what he might do to me. I request the police to please take note of the situation and take an action to resolve the issue,” Goswami wrote in his complaint.
Published 26 June 2016, 03:03 IST