Limbuwan.blogspot.com/BIRATNAGAR, Feb 3
Normal life across swaths of eastern Terai plains and hills have been thrown out of gear due to general strikes called by a number of agitating Madhesi and other ethnic groups.
Highways in the region were a deserted look while businesses and educational institutions have been affected.
The Joint Madhesi Front comprising the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, Nepal Sadbhavana Party led by Rajendra Mahato and a few other groups has called a two-day banda in eastern Terai from Sunday.
A strike called by the Federal Limbuwan State Council in nine districts in eastern Nepal entered third day Sunday.
Jhapa and Ilam districts have been affected due to the transport strike called by the Limbuwan group to seek release of its activists arrested by the police a few days back.
From districts in the eastern region such as Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Saptari, Siraha, to those in central Nepal including Rautahat and Bara in central Terai have been partially affected due to the strikes.
The Sunsari-Morang industrial corridor has come to a grinding halt.
This morning, the MPRF activists have taken 14 motorcycles under their control in Biratnagar for defying the banda.
They said the bikes would be returned to their owners after the strike ends.
Highways in the region were a deserted look while businesses and educational institutions have been affected.
The Joint Madhesi Front comprising the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, Nepal Sadbhavana Party led by Rajendra Mahato and a few other groups has called a two-day banda in eastern Terai from Sunday.
A strike called by the Federal Limbuwan State Council in nine districts in eastern Nepal entered third day Sunday.
Jhapa and Ilam districts have been affected due to the transport strike called by the Limbuwan group to seek release of its activists arrested by the police a few days back.
From districts in the eastern region such as Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Saptari, Siraha, to those in central Nepal including Rautahat and Bara in central Terai have been partially affected due to the strikes.
The Sunsari-Morang industrial corridor has come to a grinding halt.
This morning, the MPRF activists have taken 14 motorcycles under their control in Biratnagar for defying the banda.
They said the bikes would be returned to their owners after the strike ends.
Nasty turns
Limbuwan protestors have vandalised a truck at Birtamod in Jhapa.
Also this morning, cadres of an armed outfit called the Madhesi Mukti Tigers torched a passenger bus at Nikuniya stretch of the East-West Highway in Siraha.
A group of around a dozen MMT cadres forced the passengers to get off the bus heading from Pokhara to Kakarvitta before setting it on fire.
They have also looted cash and other good belonging to the passengers.
The Madhesi activists are demanding implementation of 22-point agreement sealed with the government a few months back while the indigenous Limbuwan group wants its activists arrested
a republican Nepal and autonomy for the community before the Constituent Assembly elections slated for April 10.
Almost regular strikes in eastern Nepal have only aggravated the woes of the common people of the region.
Limbuwan protestors have vandalised a truck at Birtamod in Jhapa.
Also this morning, cadres of an armed outfit called the Madhesi Mukti Tigers torched a passenger bus at Nikuniya stretch of the East-West Highway in Siraha.
A group of around a dozen MMT cadres forced the passengers to get off the bus heading from Pokhara to Kakarvitta before setting it on fire.
They have also looted cash and other good belonging to the passengers.
The Madhesi activists are demanding implementation of 22-point agreement sealed with the government a few months back while the indigenous Limbuwan group wants its activists arrested
a republican Nepal and autonomy for the community before the Constituent Assembly elections slated for April 10.
Almost regular strikes in eastern Nepal have only aggravated the woes of the common people of the region.
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