The shopkeepers of Varanasi Dalmandi protested by cutting a 'black chocolate cake': they wore black clothes and displayed black balloons, expressing their anger over the bulldozers and land acquisition.

The traders of Dalmandi celebrated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday as a day of protest. Expressing unique opposition to the Prime Minister's birthday, the shopkeepers of Dalmandi protested by cutting a black chocolate cake. While cutting the black chocolate cake in the Dalmandi market area, the traders wore black clothes and also displayed black balloons. They fed each other cakes and also expressed their displeasure over the Dalmandi project, saying that business had been ruined.