Local vendors and activists of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today suspended their three-day long agitation after local Mayor Arun Khosla gave them an assurance that the levying of tax would be reconsidered.
This was disclosed here today by former state BSP General Secretary Jarnail Nangal who had spearheaded the agitation sparked by levying of Rs 1,000-3,000 tax on vendors hawking their goods on moving push carts ('rehris') and stationary cart vendors ('pharees').
The vendors and BSP workers had gheraoed Mayor's office daily for half-an-hour in local Town Hall for last three days, burnt effigies of Punjab Local Bodies minister Anil Joshi during these days to demand withdrawal of tax.
