Lucknow: Shops Outside Samajwadi Party Office Razed by Bulldozers

The shopkeepers said they were selling campaign material of the Samajwadi Party outside its headquarters since 2001.

The civic body here on Wednesday, 31 August, bulldozed shops mostly selling campaign material on the road outside the Samajwadi Party headquarters here.

The makeshift shops, mostly made of tin sheets, on the Vikramaditya Marg were illegal and their owners were sent notices several times in the last six months asking them to remove the structures, said Rajesh Singh, the zonal officer of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation.