Vendors at Matunga's famous flower market, upset with the BMC, claim that they have licences but the civic body still took action against them on Thursday and Friday. BMC officials, meanwhile, claimed that action was taken against expansion and encroachment on public areas. Shankar Lingam, a senior citizen, said, “My father used to run this stall which is now 60 years old. I've been running this stall for 47 years, said Lingam. We have a licence. 

We covered our stalls with BMC permission 30 years ago. On Thursday, BMC pulled down our stalls using a JCB (backhoe loader). Being licence holders, the BMC should have given us time to prove our legal status.”