The alliance has enforced a nationwide general strike today aiming at piling pressure for promulgating a new constitution in the spirit of consensus. The agitators splattered petrol and put aflame the taxi, Ba 1 Ja 1877, of Niraj Baniya, a local of Hetauda, while he was returning to Lalitpur after dropping his relative at the Tribhuvan International Airport.
Two unidentified demonstrators had stopped the taxi and set fire to it with petrol at 5.15 this morning.
After a big damage to his vehicle, taxi driver Baniya said he was worrying how to eke out livelihood of his family as it was the only source of income.
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Republica's Palpa based correspondent, Tek Narayan Bhattarai informed that the cadres of the agitating 30-party alliance led by UCPN (Maoist) have vandalized eight motorbikes in Mehaldhar and Bhurbaghat areas of the district headquarters Tansen.
Likewise, agitators had also obstructed the VDC secretaries' meeting being held at District Development Committee hall.
