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Chemists down shutters in protestOver 550,000 chemists and druggists across the country downed their shutters on Saturday to express their solidarity with the striking chemists in Bihar, who are protesting against the assault on and detention of chemists there on May 2. According to Dilip Mehta, President, All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists, the strike was near total almost everywhere. Bihar chemists defy ESMA Meanwhile, Bihar druggists defied invocation of Essential Services Maintenance Act by the state government, even as majority of wholesale and retail medicine counters remained closed across the state. The indefinite strike, called by Bihar Chemists and Druggists Association, entered the ninth day on Saturday. BCDA vice-president Arun Kumar Singh and former president of the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists Udai Jaiswal said that though the administration "forced open" prominent retail medicine shops in the state capital, they were closed again later. They said the agitation would be further intensified as senior AIOCD leaders arrived here to press for fulfilment of the demand for revocation of turnover tax on medicines. The state government had ruled out reconsidering its decision on TOT on medicines to mop up additional revenue. UNI & PTI |
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