The NSU activists shouted anti-government slogans and burnt tyres on the road in front of Tri-Chandra College and the Ratnapark area over the death of Shiva Poudel, the Chitwan chairman of TD, who had died at Neuro Hospital Friday night. [break]
There are also reports coming in of demonstrations by NSU activists in front of the Pashupati Multiple Campus, Chahabil and Tahachal Campus, Chhauni, giving a tough time to commuters at the rush hour.
A day earlier, NC cadres carried out demonstrations across the country over the TD leader’s death who had succumbed to his injuries he sustained during the December 6 jail attack in Bharatpur.
The NC and its sister organizations have blamed the attack and the death on lax security at the prison and have demanded the home minister’s resignation. The party has also called a Nepal banda for Monday to protest the incident.
In Chitwan, youths have blocked roads since early this morning bringing vehicular movement to a standstill, despite the party and TD on Sunday announcing to scrap protest programs for today.
The youths have descended on the streets and have been demonstrating at major thoroughfares. Hundreds of vehicles and passengers have been stranded on the road due to the traffic obstruction.
Devendra Gurung, NC’s Chitwan chapter secretary, however, said the party had no such protest program for today. “Some irate mob could have enforced the banda. We are discussing about it,” he said.
As per earlier schedule, Poudel’s body will be brought to Chitwan from the capital later in the day and cremated at Devghat. However, there is an uncertainty about the program as the deceased’s family has refused to take the body unless its demands are met.
Also, a meeting of the NC’s five-member probe team headed by party General Secretary Krishna Prasad Sitaula is currently taking place in this regard at party President Sushil Koirala´s residence in Maharajgunj.
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