The activists stormed the stall at Mahadevsthan, opened for subscription to the daily and its sister publication the Republica, snatched several copies of the newspapers and burnt them. [break]
They stopped their unruly behavior after police intervened.
They, all of a sudden, came from a nearby college, where they were organizing a program and resorted to vandalism, accusing the daily of covering ´biased´ news about an incident at Chahabil-based Pashupati Multiple Campus happened a day earlier in which ANNFSU students had clashed with Nepali Congress-aligned Nepal Students Union activists over a minor dispute.
Issuing a statement, the Republica chapter of Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has condemned the incident, stating that the vandals could have taken a proper course of action if they had any objection to the published material.
Stating that such an act of vandalism cannot be justified in any way, it has demanded with the government stern action against those involved in the incident.
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