HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
DHANGADHI: Tension ran high in Kailali today as supporters of the intact far-west campaign took to the streets to protest remarks by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar who yesterday ‘promised to sever Kailali and Kanchanpur from the far-west region’.
Accusing DPM Gachhadar of inciting the audience to chant slogans like Jaya Tharuhat, intact far-west campaign supporters today held demonstrations at different places in Kailali. They also enforced vehicular strikes at Boradandi, Attariya, Khutiya and Lamki. Police personnel in huge numbers were deployed to escort Gachhadar, who was on his way to mid-west, through an alternative Dhangadhi-Khutiya route.
Angry demonstrators, including cadres of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, showed the minister black flags at Lamki and Chisapani.
Police had detained four persons during the protest but released them later. The demonstrators also held a corner meeting at the Lamki Bazaar and demanded Gachhadar’s resignation.
Tension ran high in Dhangadhi also after security forces stopped intact far-west campaign supporters from marching
towards the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Democratic’s party office. The demonstrators shut the Attariya Bazaar from 11:00 am alleging that police had charged batons on them. The protest ended after three hours following talks among the police, the local administration and the intact far-west campaigners. When asked about today’s demonstration, NC Kailali town secretary Keshav Mishra said their protest was aimed at the minister’s remarks which had only rekindled the old tension.Accusing DPM Gachhadar of inciting the audience to chant slogans like Jaya Tharuhat, intact far-west campaign supporters today held demonstrations at different places in Kailali. They also enforced vehicular strikes at Boradandi, Attariya, Khutiya and Lamki. Police personnel in huge numbers were deployed to escort Gachhadar, who was on his way to mid-west, through an alternative Dhangadhi-Khutiya route.
Angry demonstrators, including cadres of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, showed the minister black flags at Lamki and Chisapani.
Police had detained four persons during the protest but released them later. The demonstrators also held a corner meeting at the Lamki Bazaar and demanded Gachhadar’s resignation.
Tension ran high in Dhangadhi also after security forces stopped intact far-west campaign supporters from marching
Demanding that the minister apologise, the demonstrators have decided to stop all government vehicles from plying and close the government offices tomorrow.
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