Incident Reports

Seven agitators held in Rautahat

2016-05-24

Madhes, Rautahat, Chandrapur

Police here have arrested seven people on the charge of agitating the program by hoisting black flags in the district today. The agitators were protesting by hoisting the black flags against a team of the Development Committee under the Legislature-Parliament as the team was attending the interaction program organized at the District Development Committee hall after inspecting the construction work of postal highway. The arrested are Sadbhawana district Party chair Shekh Jamsed, Federal Socialist Forum Nepal district vice-chair Dharmendra Patel, Forum Student Front's Prakash bhai, Anil Singh of Tarai Madhes Democratic Party and Shobha Sah, Laddabhai Patel and Ajay Gupta of Forum, police said. The team led by the committee chair Rabindra Adhikari had carried out the onsite inspection there. The team compromises lawmakers, Ram Kumar Bhattarai, Ram Ayodhya Prasad Yadav, Ram Chandra Pokharel, Ranjana Sarkar, Rajeshwori Devi Singh and Ajay Shankar Nayak. Addressing the program committee chair Adhikari said that the politics should be development centered. He added that the construction works of the postal highway would be completed within three years.
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Access/control of development infrastructure (roads, bridges)
Actor 1 - Number of people n/a
Actor 1 - Affiliations Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
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