Industrial, warehousing policy soon to rid markets of their woes: CM

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday said she would bring out a warehousing policy to solve the problems of traders in old market hubs of the city, like Chandni Chowk and Sadar Bazar.

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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday accused the Delhi government of conspiring to shift the capital's historic commercial hubs like Chandni Chowk and Bhagirath Palace to Haryana's Sonipat, a charge strongly denied by the ruling BJP which termed it "misleading and politically motivated".

AAP's Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that since 2022, the BJP leaders, in coordination with the then Haryana government, had been attempting to replicate Delhi's old markets in Sonipat, thereby threatening the livelihoods and legacy of thousands of city-based traders.

"In 2022, businesspersons from Sadar Bazar, Chandni Chowk and other markets met the then Haryana CM Manohar Lal, where they were promised better facilities if they relocated," Bharadwaj claimed.