Mangalore: The roadside vendors’ association of minority and backward classes in Mangalore held a protest rally near the DC office on Monday morning and submitted as memorandum to the authorities to spare them from legal trouble and evacuation to do their small business on the roadsides in the city without harming others.
Speakers Ahmed Jamal (President), NA Humza, (General Secretary), MG Hegde (JDS), Vinod Kumar (Vice President), Riaz Harekala, Ali Hasan, Shashidhar Shetty (JDS), addressed the gathering.
The memorandum to CM, with copies to N Yogish Bhat (MLA) and Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat informed to the authorities to ask the MCC officials to show compassion and human considerations towards roadside vendors who are there in stalls and small open shops around market place since years in the coastal history of Mangalore.
MG Hegde in his speech called upon the authorities no to destroy small vendors while constructing mega markets and super bazaars for the well-to-to classes of people. No one in the history earlier ever interfered with the small businessmen on roadsides catering to working classes and small income groups.

What shandies weekly markets were to rural areas, the vendors on city roadsides are in large towns and B-grade cities today to fulfil the needs of common people. Obstructing them or taking away their sales materials by seizure and other means without providing alternate marketing ways and places was injustice to these small businessmen in cities After all, the Govt. swears by the welfare of common people who take to small trades and occupations just like cobblers in stalls given by the govt. These persons need protection by authorities not evacuation or destruction, he said. Other speakers echoed these pious sentiments.