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Traders Warn Rahul Gandhi’s Delhi March Could Cost INR12,000 Crore

By Drooid · Oct 30, 2026 · How we work

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Rahul Gandhi urged a November 1 march at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to protest vote theft and demand CEC removal.
Traders and the Chamber of Trade and Industry warned the rally could cause INR10,000-12,000 crore losses across twenty-one markets.
The Chamber sent letters to Sonia Gandhi requesting the rally be postponed after Diwali or moved to Burari Ground.
Delhi Police expect fifty thousand attendees and will deploy about three thousand five hundred personnel.

History

Ramlila Maidan first hosted a mass protest on 25 June 1975 when Jayaprakash Narayan rallied over a lakh people against Indira Gandhi. The site later saw the 1977 Janata Party rally led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the 2011 anti-corruption demonstrations of Anna Hazare. Rahul Gandhi’s 2024 march follows this legacy of large Delhi rallies that repeatedly strain civic resources.

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Ramlila Maidan first hosted a mass protest on 25 June 1975 when Jayaprakash Narayan rallied over a lakh people against Indira Gandhi. The site later saw the 1977 Janata Party rally led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the 2011 anti-corruption demonstrations of Anna Hazare. Rahul Gandhi’s 2024 march follows this legacy of large Delhi rallies that repeatedly strain civic resources.

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