All India Traders Convention on 27-28 Feburary at New Delhi

In the wake of forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), apex body of the trading community of the Country in a well planned strategy has chosen the right time to project their issues strongly before the political spectrum at a time when political parties are under much pressure due to Lok Sabha polls. The CAIT is holding an All India Traders Convention on forthcoming 27th and 28th Feburary at New Delhi which is likely to be attended by thousands of trade leaders from all over the Country. The CAIT has sent invitations to senior leaders of all prominent national and regional political parties to attend the Convention.

CAIT National President Mr. B. C. Bhartia aand Secretary General Mr. Praveen Khandelwal informed that the Convention assumes much significance keeping an eye over the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls because of the reason that trade leaders across the Country will finalise their role in the Lok Sabha Polls. They regretted that during last 65 years utter discrimination has been done with traders of the Country by all political parties and Union and State Governments which has irked the traders. Therefore, the traders are in a mood to have one to one dialogue with political leaders on their issues and will consider t o support only those parties who will be eager to resolve their issues.

More than 6 crore business enterprises are conducting their business activities in unorganised sector providing employment to more than 25 crore people and generating an annual turn over of more than 25 crores of rupees but still the polity has grossly neglected the trading community. ” Either listen to us-or forget our votes” shall be the fundamental slogan of the Convention.

The trade leaders expressed great regrets that other sectors of the economy have been given preferential treatment since all other sectors have a policy and a seperate ministry but even being such an important contributor to national economy and the big size of the traders in the Country, they neither have a policy nor any ministry. All such issues will be raised in the Convention and the traders will decide their role in forthcoming elections which will be declared in the Convention itself.