जनजाति आन्दोलनमा गीत-संगीत र प्रतिकार

९ जेठ, काठमाण्डौं । जनजाति महासंघले एकल जातीय पहिचानका आधारमा राज्य माग्दै दुई दिनदेखि आन्दोलन गरिरहेको छ । जनजाति आन्दोलनमा प्रेसमाथिको आक्रमण, स्थानीय बासिन्दाको प्रतिकारका बारेमा त मिडियामा चर्चा भइरहेका छन् ।  जनजाति आन्दोलनमा एउटा अर्को सुन्दर पक्ष पनि देखिएको छ । भिन्नभिन्न ठाउामा भिन्न भिन्न जातिले अड्डा जमाएर आन्दोलन गरेका छन् । त्यहाँ उनीहरुका मौलिक संस्कृति र नाचगानको झल्को पनि पाइन्छ । परम्परागत पोशाकमा सजिएका आन्दोलनकारीहरुले आफ्ना मौलिक गीत संगीत र नाचगान देखाई आन्दोलनलाई सांस्कृतिक रंग पनि दिन खोजेका छन् ।  हेरौं दुईवटा भिन्नाभिन्नै भिडियो । पहिलो भिडियोमा सांस्कृतिक रंग छ भने दोस्रोमा स्थानीयबासीमाथि ज्यादती गर्ने आन्दोलनकारीको प्रतिकार भएको छ

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विवादित विषयलाई मतदानबाट टुङग्याउन माओवादी र मोर्चा सहमत

९ जेठ, काठमाण्डौं । शीर्षदलको बैठकमा मंगलबार पनि सहमित नभए निर्वाचन प्रणलीबाट विवाद समाधान गर्न माओवादी मोर्चा सहमत भएका छन् । माओवादी अध्यक्ष पुष्पकमल दाहाल प्रचण्डको निवास लाजिम्पाटमा भएको छलफलमा राज्यपुनसर्ंचना आयोग र संविधानसभाको विषयगत समितिले दिएको दुई मध्ये एक प्रस्तावमा सहमत हुनुपर्ने त्यसो नभए निर्वाचन प्रक्रियामा जाने सहमति भएको फोरम गणतान्त्रिकका कार्यवाहक अध्यक्ष राजकिशोर यादवले जानकारी दिनुभयो ।

आजको छलफलबाट मोर्चा र माओवादीले बहुमतबाट भएपनि विवादित विषयको समाधान गर्ने निर्णय गरेका हुन । शीर्ष दलको बैठकमा साझा धारणा राख्ने नेताहरुले बताएका छन् । कांग्रेस र एमालेले भने जातिय आधारमा प्रदेश बनाउन नहुने र अहिले नै संघियतामा गए ८ प्रदशे मान्नुपर्ने अडान राखेका छन् ।

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Rupandehi scribes halt printing, broadcasting news

Protesting against the attack on media and media persons, the journalists of Rupandehi, Butwal halted publications and broadcasting of news materials on Tuesday.

All the FM stations, televisions based in Butwal stopped their news bulletin for a day today.

Butwal has 13 FM stations, seven daily newspapers and two community televisions.

The editorial group has said that it resorted to protest as the banda supporters have been assaulting media persons and vandalising and torching press vehicles.

Some three journalists and their vehicles were vandalised in the district on Monday.

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Govt to escort essential goods to ensure normal supply

The government has decided to provide armed security escorts to vehicles carrying food and other essential items to prevent their shortage in all 75 districts of the country.

A high-level Supply Management Committee (SMC), coordinated by commerce and supplies Secretary and having secretaries from ministries like home, finance, agriculture and cooperatives among others, took the decision after Chief Secretary Madhav Prasad Ghimire instructed it to act promptly to quell the shortage of essential commodities. 

Likewise, the government on Monday also activated Regional and District Security Councils, which are headed by regional administrators and chief district officers across the country. “We have asked them to coordinate with the local business community and supplies officials so that essential goods are not scarce,” said a source at Prime Minister´s Office.

The government followed back to back banda started affecting availability of basic commodities in different parts of the country. Strikes in Tarai districts have resulted in shortage of daily necessities, including foods, in the eastern as well as western hilly districts. 

According to our correspondent Dil Bahadur Chhatyal, trucks carrying food meant for hilly districts like Doti, Achham and Bajura in the far-west have been stranded in the Tarai districts. Hospitals in the far west are facing severe shortages of oxygen cylinders, saline and other life-saving drugs.

Some hospitals in Kathmandu too complained on Monday that their stocks of oxygen and medicines were fast running out. Sales of vegetables, fruits and milk have been badly affected in most cities. Import of petroleum products too have come to a halt since Sunday.

“SMC meeting in the evening decided to provide security escorts to the vehicles ferrying petroleum products, vegetables, fruits, milk, oxygen cylinders and medicines, among others,” said Dipak Subedi, spokesperson of Ministry of Commerce and Supplies.

It also instructed the Home Ministry and security agencies to make arrangements for security escorts, whenever asked for by the hospitals, traders and transporters for the delivery of all essential goods. 

“Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has been assigned to coordinate for the transportation of milk, vegetables and milk,” Subedi told Republica. Likewise, the committee has instructed Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) to immediately transfer its food stocks from various depots in the far-western region to districts like Humla.

During the meeting, Nepal Oil Corporation informed the SMC that it has enough fuel to maintain supply for two weeks and Salt Trading Corporation said it had stock of salt enough for six months.

Likewise, National Trading Limited, NFC and private traders informed they had adequate stock of rice, pulses, edible oil and other edible items. 

“The meeting identified petroleum products, vegetables, fruits and milk as four major commodities on which SMC needs to focus on in the Kathmandu Valley,” said Subedi. 

As for the districts outside the Valley, the committee has asked the local authority to identify sensitive items, and take prompt steps in coordination with the security agencies to maintain their supplies.


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Third day of NEFIN banda cripples life

The general strike called by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) has crippled life across the nation on Tuesday as well.

The banda has been called to name and map territory of federal states on the basis of ethnicity.

Transportation has come to a grinding halt due to the strike.

Normal life has been paralysed in the valley due to the NEFIN banda and it has been further crippled in Tarai region due to the banda called by various organisations and associations.

It has been reported that the demonstrators vandalised a vehicle in Dang early morning today.

The banda continued today as talks between the agitating ethic groups and the government remained inconclusive on Monday.

The two sides, however, have agreed to continue the discussions today.

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A bus got attacked in Hetauda

Agitating cadres of Indigenous Nationalities’ Joint Struggle Committee set a bus on fire at Simpani in Manahari VDC-4 along the east-west highway in Hetauda early Tuesday morning.

The night bus (Na 3 Kha 9169) was heading to the east from Butwal in Rupandehi district.

The attack took place at 5 a.m.

Fire destroyed passengers' luggage, but no human casualties have been reported in the incident, the District Police Office,Makawanpur, stated. RSS

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Scribes manhandled, vehicles vandalised

Supporters of the banda called by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) continued to assault journalists and press vehicles on Tuesday as well.

The supporters manhandled a journalist of Mountain TV and vandalised the van ( Ba 9 Cha 2933) at Gatthaghar in Bhaktapur this morning.

The irate banda enforcers vandalised the van that was heading to pick up television staffs, and took away the identity cards and manhandled journalist Uttar Phuyal and office staff Mina Khadka, sources confirmed. The banda supporters had impounded the van for some time.

Likewise, a tourist bus (Ba 1 Ya 430) has also been vandalised at Mahankal of Bouddha this morning.

Meanwhile, police detained some eight banda supporters at Jadibuti for forcefully enforcing banda in the area.

Though NEFIN Chairman Raj Kumar Lekhi, in a statement, urged cadres not to obstruct the movement of media persons, banda supporters have ignored the call.

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