KATHMANDU, May 20: Normal life has been crippled all across the country including in the capital on the first day of the three-day banda called by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) on Sunday.
Academic institutions, market places and shops have remained closed and transport services have come to a complete halt due to the strike. The Broader Madhesi Front has also extended its support to today’s banda.
The general strike has been called demanding scrapping of the 11-state model that does not have names and clear delineation, federalism based on identity and guarantee of rights of indigenous people in the new constitution.
Banda enforcers have not spared vehicles even belonging to hospital, press, diplomatic missions and human rights organizations.
Earlier on, NEFIN Chairman Raj Kumar Lekhi, issuing a press statement, had urged to provide unhindered passage to vehicles belonging to emergency services providers.
Banda enforcers attack press vehicles
A vehicle of the Nagarik daily returning after delivering the newspapers has also been vandalized in Pokhara.
Similarly, the vehicles of the Kantipur Publication have been vandalized in Budhanagar and Jorpati early morning. The strike enforcers have also vandalized a vehicle belonging to Karobar Daily in Kupondole. They have destroyed a van of Kantipur TV (Ba 9 Cha 5537) in Baneshwor.
They have also torched a motorcycle (Ba 20 Pa 3899) of the Himalayan Television cameraman YP Ghimire in Gwarko.
PM calls on agitators for talks
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has urged the agitating NFIN to come for talks on Sunday.
He also condemned attacks by banda enforcers on media persons and their vehicles. Band enforcers have manhandled some media persons and vandalized several vehicles belonging to them and media houses at various places during today´s banda.
The government has also invited the Joint Tharuwan Struggle Committee to come for talks. The committee has been enforcing banda in 22 western Tarai districts since past several days, demanding a separate state.
Meanwhile, talks between the National Muslim Struggle Committee and the government is underway at the peace and reconstruction ministry in Singha Durbar.
NEFIN chairman Lekhi asks agitators to refrain from attack on press
NEFIN chairman Lekhi has said they have respect for rights of media persons to freely collect and disseminate news. He has also asked agitating NEFIN activists to keep restraint and not get swayed by the ´government´s conspiracy´ to disgrace the agitation, by being involved in attack and vandalism against the press.
Source myrepublica
Academic institutions, market places and shops have remained closed and transport services have come to a complete halt due to the strike. The Broader Madhesi Front has also extended its support to today’s banda.
The general strike has been called demanding scrapping of the 11-state model that does not have names and clear delineation, federalism based on identity and guarantee of rights of indigenous people in the new constitution.
Banda enforcers have not spared vehicles even belonging to hospital, press, diplomatic missions and human rights organizations.
Earlier on, NEFIN Chairman Raj Kumar Lekhi, issuing a press statement, had urged to provide unhindered passage to vehicles belonging to emergency services providers.
Banda enforcers attack press vehicles
A vehicle of the Nagarik daily returning after delivering the newspapers has also been vandalized in Pokhara.
Similarly, the vehicles of the Kantipur Publication have been vandalized in Budhanagar and Jorpati early morning. The strike enforcers have also vandalized a vehicle belonging to Karobar Daily in Kupondole. They have destroyed a van of Kantipur TV (Ba 9 Cha 5537) in Baneshwor.
They have also torched a motorcycle (Ba 20 Pa 3899) of the Himalayan Television cameraman YP Ghimire in Gwarko.
PM calls on agitators for talks
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has urged the agitating NFIN to come for talks on Sunday.
He also condemned attacks by banda enforcers on media persons and their vehicles. Band enforcers have manhandled some media persons and vandalized several vehicles belonging to them and media houses at various places during today´s banda.
The government has also invited the Joint Tharuwan Struggle Committee to come for talks. The committee has been enforcing banda in 22 western Tarai districts since past several days, demanding a separate state.
Meanwhile, talks between the National Muslim Struggle Committee and the government is underway at the peace and reconstruction ministry in Singha Durbar.
NEFIN chairman Lekhi asks agitators to refrain from attack on press
NEFIN chairman Lekhi has said they have respect for rights of media persons to freely collect and disseminate news. He has also asked agitating NEFIN activists to keep restraint and not get swayed by the ´government´s conspiracy´ to disgrace the agitation, by being involved in attack and vandalism against the press.
Source myrepublica
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