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A traders’ front of the BJP on Wednesday defied the restrictions imposed by the Maharashtra government to curb COVID-19 cases by opening a shop selling non-essential commodities.
The members of the front opened a hardware shop in the Bibvewadi area, which comes under the non-essential category, to register their protest against the order.
As per the state government’s order ‘Break the Chain’, all the shops in the state under the non-essential category will remain closed till April 30 to contain the spread of the virus.
Jagdish Mulik, BJP’s city unit president, said that imposing a lockdown in Pune, which is different from the order of the state is an injustice to the small traders and those workers who live hand to mouth.
