GURGAON: Curfew continued for the sixth day in Tauru on Friday. Owing to the continuing tension in the Mewat town, chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda postponed his tour to the district scheduled on Saturday.

“The proposed visit by chief minister Hooda has been postponed,” confirmed R C Verma, deputy commissioner of Mewat district.

A Tauru resident said, “We have got an appointment to meet Haryana’s chief minister in Delhi on Saturday morning. We have a feeling that the district administration did not present the true picture of what happened on Sunday to the state leadership. That is why we want to speak directly to him,” a resident of Tauru said.

Gurgaon district Congress (rural) president Jitender Bhardwaj will accompany a traders’ delegation to the meeting at the CM’s residence in New Delhi.

With the curfew being relaxed for the whole day on Friday, a few shops opened and some people stepped out.

But repeated efforts by the administration to bring the two communities, which clashed in Tauru on Sunday, to the negotiation table proved futile.

“We want the administration to clamp down on the culprits. Once that is done, we will participate in peace talks,” a trader said. The traders of Tauru had organized a mahapanchayat on the outskirts of the town as social gatherings are prohibited under Section 144.

Aam Aadmi party leader Yogendra Yadav also met representatives of both communities on Friday in a bid to broker peace. “Yogendraji has invited leaders from both communities on Saturday at a ground in Badlaka village to initiate peace talks,” said Ramzan Chaudhary, AAP leader in Mewat.