India, Nov. 10 -- A team of BJP legislators visiting the Warehouse Complex wholesale market in Jammu on Monday to express condolences to traders who suffered losses in a fire on Diwali night faced angry shopkeepers, who questioned why the party held dharnas over some issues but not for them.

"You always sit on dharna outside the Legislative Assembly, but why did you not hold a sit-in for those whose livelihood has been snatched on Diwali day?" Deepak Gupta, president of the Warehouse Traders Federation, asked Leader of the Opposition Sunil Sharma. "You will also leave after giving us assurances like the government," he said.

Fire incidents at more than 60 locations across the Jammu division during Diwali caused damage to commercial esta...