Strings of strikes take toll on mid-west dwellers
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NEPALGUNJ, MAY 26 - Strings of bandas enforced by political and ethnic bodies in the recent past weeks have taken toll on the inhabitants of Mid Western districts.
Daily life in the Mid Western districts, including Banke, Bardiya, Dang and Surkhet, continued to suffer under the banda woes on Thursday as well, thanks to the two-day strike jointly enforced by different Hindu organisations.
Pressing the demands of declaring Nepal a Hindu nation and banning cow slaughter, the Hindu organisations, including Bishwa Hindu Mahashang and Shiva Sena, have called the latest banda in the Mid West.
The banda was enforced after it was recently revealed that a meat product supplier at the Khajura region of Banke was exporting beef products.
Transportation service, educational institutes, marketplace and factories in the Mid Western districts suffered due to the two-day banda. Although largely peaceful, the banda nevertheless affected the public movement, services and businesses. Business owners at Tribhuvan Chowk and Sadarline of Nepalgunj expressed solidarity with the banda demanding that the cow slaughter be banned throughout the country.
Security personnel were mobilised at major thoroughfares and marketplace of the banda-affected districts to avert untoward incidents.
Earlier on Tusday, the Matrika Yadav-led CPN (Maoist) had imposed nationwide strike, paralysing the normal life in the region. Before that, various political fronts and ethnic outfits had enforced strikes in a consecutive manner.
Posted on: 2011-05-26 05:14
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