KATHMANDU, May 10: Banda enforcers on Thursday attacked Maoist lawmakers Sudan Rai and Laxmi Gurung in Koteshwor while they were on way to participate in CA meeting.
Rai informed RSS that he sustained minor injuries. Meanwhile, UCPN (Maoist) condemned attack on its lawmakers and termed the attack a move to disrupt communal harmony.
71 arrested in capital
Police arrested around 71 protestors from the capital enforcing banda on Thursday.
Govt invites banda enforcers for talks
The government has invited various agitating groups enforcing bandas in various parts of country for talks. Issuing letter to 12 agitating groups on Thursday, the government asked agitators to form a five-member talk team to hold talks with the government.
The peace ministry has also informed that the government has made necessary arrangements to talk team of Far-west region stranded in Bardiya.
Strikers burn Republica, Nagarik dailies
BUTWAL: Supporters of Brahman Society, who are protesting the ethnic-based federalism have burnt Republica and Nagarik dailies on Thursday morning. They had seized the papers from newspaper delivery vehicles heading for Bhairahawa.
According to Mahesh Sharma of the distribution section of the newspapers, 2,100 copies of Nagarik and 500 copies of Republica were burnt by the protestors. The society activists said they burnt the newspapers because they did not report their strike.
Banda cripples normal life
Normal life has been affected all across the country including in the capital since early Thursday morning due to a banda enforced by the joint struggle committee comprised of various caste groups.
The committee includes the Chhetri Samaj Nepal, the Brahman Samaj Nepal, the Khas Kshetriya Ekata Samaj, the Thakuri Samaj Mahasangh, Nepal Dasnami Samaj, the Bibhed Mukti Pragatisheel Samaj and the Dalit Janajagaran Sewa Sangh.
Public and private transportation have come to a grinding halt, giving commuters a tough time in the capital. Likewise, businesses and marketplaces have remained closed.
Banda enforcers have descended on the road, rallying and chanting slogans at various places in the valley including Satdobato, Kalanki and Gongabu. Security has been stepped in the streets. Reports say more than two dozens banda enforcers have been detained.
The agitators have called today’s banda opposing the idea of carving out federal states based on ethnicity and demanding recognition of their identity in the new constitution. They have maintained that such state restructuring will adversely affect communal harmony and poses a risk of territorial disintegration.
Our Baglung correspondent Dilip Poudel reported that the banda has crippled life in Daulagiri zone. Hundreds of passengers have been stranded as vehicles on all long and short routes from the district headquarters have stayed off the road.
Far-west talks team stranded
A talks team, with 50-odd members, from the far-western region has been stranded in Bardiya due to the strike. The team representing the people of the region, who have been enforcing strike in region for the past two weeks demanding an undivided far-west, were on their way to the capital to hold talks with the government.
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Rai informed RSS that he sustained minor injuries. Meanwhile, UCPN (Maoist) condemned attack on its lawmakers and termed the attack a move to disrupt communal harmony.
71 arrested in capital
Police arrested around 71 protestors from the capital enforcing banda on Thursday.
Govt invites banda enforcers for talks
The government has invited various agitating groups enforcing bandas in various parts of country for talks. Issuing letter to 12 agitating groups on Thursday, the government asked agitators to form a five-member talk team to hold talks with the government.
The peace ministry has also informed that the government has made necessary arrangements to talk team of Far-west region stranded in Bardiya.
Strikers burn Republica, Nagarik dailies
BUTWAL: Supporters of Brahman Society, who are protesting the ethnic-based federalism have burnt Republica and Nagarik dailies on Thursday morning. They had seized the papers from newspaper delivery vehicles heading for Bhairahawa.
According to Mahesh Sharma of the distribution section of the newspapers, 2,100 copies of Nagarik and 500 copies of Republica were burnt by the protestors. The society activists said they burnt the newspapers because they did not report their strike.
Banda cripples normal life
Normal life has been affected all across the country including in the capital since early Thursday morning due to a banda enforced by the joint struggle committee comprised of various caste groups.
The committee includes the Chhetri Samaj Nepal, the Brahman Samaj Nepal, the Khas Kshetriya Ekata Samaj, the Thakuri Samaj Mahasangh, Nepal Dasnami Samaj, the Bibhed Mukti Pragatisheel Samaj and the Dalit Janajagaran Sewa Sangh.
Public and private transportation have come to a grinding halt, giving commuters a tough time in the capital. Likewise, businesses and marketplaces have remained closed.
Banda enforcers have descended on the road, rallying and chanting slogans at various places in the valley including Satdobato, Kalanki and Gongabu. Security has been stepped in the streets. Reports say more than two dozens banda enforcers have been detained.
The agitators have called today’s banda opposing the idea of carving out federal states based on ethnicity and demanding recognition of their identity in the new constitution. They have maintained that such state restructuring will adversely affect communal harmony and poses a risk of territorial disintegration.
Our Baglung correspondent Dilip Poudel reported that the banda has crippled life in Daulagiri zone. Hundreds of passengers have been stranded as vehicles on all long and short routes from the district headquarters have stayed off the road.
Far-west talks team stranded
A talks team, with 50-odd members, from the far-western region has been stranded in Bardiya due to the strike. The team representing the people of the region, who have been enforcing strike in region for the past two weeks demanding an undivided far-west, were on their way to the capital to hold talks with the government.
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