Mumbai dabbewalas in full support of Anna Hazare

Mumbai: In the history of 120 years of Mumbai’s dabbewalas who provide tiffins to above two lakh people are taking a break from their daily routine on tomorrow in respect of Anna Hazare’s protest in New Delhi against corruption.

“In the last 120 years, we have not had the occasion to take a day off, come rain or shine. We never stop work. But we have decided to back Hazare’s agitation," Sopan Mare of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association told reporters here today. "To support Hazare, as the whole country is doing so, the 5,000 dabbawalas in the city would hold a rally from Churchgate to Azad Maidan tomorrow," Mare said. When mare was asked that if their customers get irked because of their one day break, he replied that, their customers love them so much that, they won’t mind if they will not serve them one day.

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