NEW DELHI, November 21: The Akhil Bharatiya Sarkari Lottery Vyapari Mahasangh has sought the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to lift the ban on lottery trade as it had rendered 2.5 million people jobless all over the country.

In a letter to the NHRC chairperson, Mahasangh general secretary K Pant said the government has violated the human rights of tens of thousands of people by promulgating the ordinance.

``Several people are facing semi-starvation due to being rendered jobless'', he added. He pointed out that States' lottery trade was constitutionally granted under the Seventh Schedule and it could not be taken away by an ordinance, except through an amendment in the Constitution.

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