Ghaziabad, Feb. 8 -- Hundreds of street vendors led by Bharatiya Janata Party's Loni MLA Nand Kishor Gurjar and flanked by party councillor took out a march in Ghaziabad city on Friday to protest the removal of weekly markets from city roads by the police.

The march was taken out from Ambedkar Park in Navyug Market to the district headquarters about three kilometres away.

Vendors who put up stalls at these flea markets -- locally called paith bazars - are protesting the police action to remove them from roadsides with an aim to reduce traffic congestion. Police said their measure will ease traffic chaos across Ghaziabad city.

On Thursday, Gurjar had put up a vegetable stall at the roadside weekly market near Naipura in Loni, daring pol...