It is impossible to shift our base at this point and we will certainly lose our business.'

He said every Sunday over 800 cars are displayed here, and around 100 sold. These not only include economy cars, but elite cars like Mercedes, BMW and SUVs, while the customers are from Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.

However, the officials are in no mood to budge from their stand on relocating the market.

'We are not interfering in their business but we want to provide them better and more spacious place for their business. Moreover, we had also got several complaints against these dealers as their cars cover the whole market and other businesses are suffering due to this,' a senior official said.

Unaware of this tussle between the car dealers and administration, scores of outstation customers were left in the lurch Sunday.

'We had come here to buy a jeep, but on reaching here we came to know about this strike. We have wasted our whole day due to this,' said Amit Tandon, a resident of Punjab's Amritsar city, some 250 km from here.