Disqualified former combatants enforce banda
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KATHMANDU, JAN 05 -
Normal life has been crippled in various districts on Thursday due to the banda called by the former Maoist combatants who were declared disqualified by UNMIN and discharged from the cantonments.
However, the banda has not affected normal life in the Capital.
The disqualified Maoist former combatants organised the shutdown protesting against the government and the party for turning deaf ear to their concerns, demanding reinstatement, removal of tag of 'disqualified', combatants proper management, among others.
Transportation has come to a grinding halt, educational institutions and the market, industries in various parts of the nation including Butwal, Makwanpur, Baglung, Parbat, Kaski, Palpa and Myagdi have been shutdown due to the banda.
Meanwhile, the irate ex-combatants torched a van (Na 4 Kha 4342) belonging to the Unilever Company in Makwanpur for defying strike this morning.
According to the police, they assaulted the driver and took two mobile sets of the assistant driver.
Likewise, some vehicles have also been vandalised and a tractor has been torched along the East-West highway.
Posted on: 2012-01-05 10:24
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