On Monday, the Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Maoist that split from the UCPN (Maoist) in June had submitted a 70-point demand to Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. The party called the Friday´s banda to protest the recent price hike on the daily essentials including petroleum products. [break]
“We inform you all that our party CPN-Maoist will enforce Friday´s nationwide banda from 6 am to 12 at noon only in view of the National Children’s Day and Teej festival,” informed Pampha Bhusal, party spokesperson, issuing a press statement.
It was incumbent Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai who submitted a 40-point demand to then prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba before launching an insurgency in 1996. But, Bhattarai himself had to receive 70-point demand that also included his original 40-point demand.
The 70-point demand includes scrapping of the1950 treaty and BIPPA between Nepal and India, eradication of corruption in all sectors of society and ban on the movement of Indian number plate bearing vehicles in Nepal, among other things.
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