Incident Reports

Residents of Sabaila agitated, Municipality office padlocked

2017-01-08

Madhes, Dhanusha, Rajbiraj

Locals of Sabaila have been agitating against the changing of the name of their municipality as proposed by the Local Level Restructuring Commission. Politicians as well as traders of Sabaila municipality have padlocked municipality office indefinitely halting their daily works. They have also declared a general strike of the city. Saying that no changes have been made in the name of municipalities of Dhanusha such as Ganeshma Tarnath municipality, Dhanushadham municipality, Kshiwornath municipality but Sabaila was changed to Saptashree Municipality with the change in boundaries, Roshan Yadhav, Maiost Leader said to hand over delegation to DAO. Demanding the unjust decision made for Sabaila municipality, they demanded for the withdrawal of the decision chanting anti municipal slogans. स्थानीय तह पुर्नसंरचना आयोगले पारित गरेको नयाँ नगरपालिका संरचनाअन्तर्गत सबैला नगरपालिकाको नाम हेरफेर गरेको भन्दै स्थानीयसबैलाबासी आन्दोलित भएका छन् । सबैला नगरका सम्पुर्ण राजनीतिकर्मी र व्यवसायीहरु दैनिक कामकाज ठप्प गरी नगरपालिका कार्यालयमा अनिश्चितकालीन तालाबन्दी गरी एकदिने नगर बन्दको घोषणा गरेका छन् । पूर्वघोषित धनुषाका नगरपालिकाहरु गणेशमान तारनाथ नगरपालिका , धनुषाधाम नगरपालिका र क्षिरेश्वरनाथ नगरपालिका यथावत रहेको तथा सबैलाको सीमाङ्कन हेरफेर गरी सप्तऋषि नगरपालिकामा परिवर्तन गरेको भन्दै जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालयमा समेत आइतबार डेलिगेशन बुझाउने माओवादी नेता रोशन यादवले बताए । सबैला नगरपालिकामा भएको विभेदकारी निर्णय प्रति असमर्थता जनाउँदै बिभेदकारी निर्णय अन्त्यको माग गर्दै उनीहरु नगर विरोधी मुर्दावादको नाराहित नाराबाजी पनि गरेका छन् ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Event Duration More than 1 day
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Contestation over Constitution and federal restructuring
Actor 1 - Number of people 50
Actor 1 - Affiliations Protesters/demonstrators
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
Local Newspaper - Dhanusha

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