Nine opposition parties led by the CPN-UML on Friday took to the streets, as they took out a rally and organized a mass meeting in the middle of the road in the Capital to protest against the government move of registering a constitution amendment bill, which they say is against national interest and endangers national integrity and nationalism. Thousands of activists of the opposition parties started descending on Kathmandu streets from different parts since morning before gathering at the Exhibition Road to hear their leaders, who criticized the governing parties and the Madhesh-based forces for making a pitch for constitution amendment with a plan to redraw provincial boundaries. The opposition parties’ mass meeting in the Capital in a show of strength on Friday comes amid an understanding between the governing parties—CPN (Maoist Centre) and the Nepali Congress—and the agitating Madhesh-based parties to table the constitution amendment bill in Parliament on Sunday.