KATHMANDU, SEP 25 - Leaders and activists of the youth outfits of the five agitating political parties today courted arrest demanding restoration of the constitutional and political process.
Wednesday’s agitation was part of the second day of the eighth phase of the demonstration against royal intervention of October 4, 2002.Although the protest programme was organised by the youth outfits, former lawmakers and central leaders of the various parties, too, courted arrest.
The student and youth wings of the Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML, Nepal Workers’ and Peasants Party (NWPP), People’s Front Nepal and Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi) condemned the ‘regression’ in politics and staged demonstrations in the city centre.The demonstrators, which emanated from various points around Ratna Park, came in waves and chanted anti-regression slogans. However police rounded them off without meeting much resistance and detained them at Mahendra Police Club. The number of protesters who were rounded up by the police has been estimated to be over one thousand. Many of the protesters were later released in the evening.
Among those arrested included former minister Meena Pandey, NC Kathmandu District Unit President Tirtha Ram Dangol, among leaders of the various youth and women’s wings of the five political parties.Meanwhile, a statement issued by the agitating outfits has condemned the arrest of the party activists by the police, who have also been accused of failing to deal with the situation with restraint. They have also issued a warning to release all those rounded up.
The parties have also said that the prohibition order banning assembly in public places was in violation of basic rights of the people. Posted on: 2003-09-24 10:08

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