Three cadres including Krishna Chaudhary and Okil Rawat were arrested in police intervention in which other three cadres sustained injuries.
Demonstrators were trying to block the highway as part of protest demanding a single Tharuhat province elongating from Nawalparasi to Kanchanpur and objecting the idea of mixing Terai districts with the hilly region.
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