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With HC judgment, suddenly their wages will be reduced. He added: “If that starts happening, it will bring untold miseries to the poor.”Meanwhile, the government is taking legal advice on the issue. They will be put to huge financial stress. NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that the Delhi high court’s decision to quash his government’s notification on revision of minimum wages would put “huge financial stress on labourers”.Expressing his views on Twitter, Kejriwal said on Sunday: “Large number of daily wage earners in Delhi started getting increased wages of Rs 13,500 per month instead of Rs 9,500 for more than a year. A huge setback for them (sic).” HC on Saturday set aside the decision of the AAP government to revise the minimum wage for all classes and held that the Delhi government’s notification of March 2017 on the matter was unconstitutional.In the wake of the HC ruling, some employers, Kejriwal claimed, were planning to recover the increased wages that they had paid for one year..