Book publishers and private book dealers have also joined the fight against Local Body Tax (LBT), after learning that LBT will be imposed on all educational textbooks, with only the exception of government published textbooks. The traders went on an indefinite strike by stopping supply to wholesalers and distributors yesterday.

Unfair rule: Zoher Yusuf Golwala, owner of Saifee book depot in South Mumbai, is one of the many book dealers who say that levying of LBT on textbooks is unfair and, as a sign of protest, will be withdrawing the 10-12% discount that is usually given to booksellers