Chandigarh, Sep 13 - Dealers in Chandigarh's used cars are up in arms against the administration's move to relocate the market, which is said to be the biggest in the country.

Dealers at the market, in the city's Sector 7 market area, Sunday did not display the cars and staged a peaceful protest against the Chandigarh administration by wearing black badges.

'We do not know the reason why the administration wants to shift this market. We are doing our business peacefully from here for the last 30 years and now suddenly we got an order to change this market's location,' Ramneek Singh Pannu, general secretary of Chandigarh Car Bazaar Association, told IANS Sunday.

'There are 43 main car dealers in this market and each dealer has five to seven sub-dealers working with him. This move of the administration will directly affect over 1,000 families. They said that they got complaints from RWAs (residents welfare associations) and some hoteliers, but one thing is strange that nobody approached us.'

This weekly car bazaar is held every Sunday on the Madhya Marg stretch in Sector 7. A few days back, the administration had directed the dealers to move their market to the industrial area or to some other open space, away from the busy sectors.

Jatinder Singh, a car dealer, told IANS: 'We have our own permanent offices here from where we operate our entire business.