India, Jan. 22 -- Five hundred and eleven vendors have alleged that the BMC's market department is attempting to force their consent for cluster redevelopment of the Lokmanya Tilak Market building on Grant Road, which was repaired as recently as 2022.

After the BMC on January 19 carried out some demolitions of what it claimed were encroachments at the market, the Akhil Maharashtra Machhimar Kruti Samiti (AMMKS) filed a complaint with the higher authorities, accusing the civic body of perpetrating grave injustice against the Marathi-Koli community and Mumbai's working-class traders and vendors.

AMMKS president Devendra Tandel told HT that a builder had approached the BMC to include the market building in a cluster redevelopment scheme. "...