Incident Reports

Bharatpur NC cadres protest central decision to forge electoral alliance with Maoist Centre

2017-05-04

Bagmati, Chitawan, Bharatpur

Nepali Congress (NC) cadres in Chitwan expressed their dissatisfaction over the electoral alliance between the NC and the CPN (Maoist Centre) in four metropolitan cities. The NC cadres staged demonstration in front of the district party office on Thursday following the party central office’s decision to support Maoist Centre make its mayor candidate victorious in the local level elections. They also chanted slogans against party President Sher Bahadur Deuba. The NC cadres, who were engaged in the election campaign, had also reached the central party office and chanted slogans against Deuba for taking wrong decision. The NC had decided to help Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s daughter Renu Dahal, who had registered her nomination for the post of mayor in the local level elections, victorious. Dinesh Koirala, a NC candidate for the post of mayor, however, is busy in the election campaign. According to NC lawmaker Ram Krishna Ghimire, the party should not have forged electoral alliance with the Maoist Centre as the NC has its stronghold in Bharatpur Metropolitan City. Speaking at a press conference organised with an objective to inform about the NC’s nomination on Thursday morning, district party Vice-President Kailash Koirala said that the electoral alliance between NC and Maoist Centre was just a rumour and urged the party cadres not to run after it. माओवादीसँग चुनावी तालमेलको विरोधमा चितवनका कांग्रेस कार्यकर्ताहरुले विरोध प्रदर्शन गरेका छन् । उनीहरुले पार्टी सभापति शेरबहादुर देउवाविरुद्ध नाराबाजी गरेका छन् । बिहीबार बिहान कांग्रेस र माओवादीबीच चुनावी तालमेल गर्ने सहमति भएको थियो । काठमाडौं र पोखरा महानगरपालिकाको मेयरमा माओवादीले कांग्रेसलाई सघाउने र चितवनको मेयरमा कांग्रेसले सघाउने सहमति शीर्ष तहमा भएको थियो । सो समाचार सार्बजनिक भएलगत्तै चितवनका कांग्रेस कार्यकर्ताहरु आन्दोलित भएका हुन् । कमलनगरस्थित पार्टी कार्यालयमा जम्मा भएका कांग्रेस कार्यकर्ताहरुले सहमतीलाई कुनै पनि हालतमा नमान्ने भन्दै चर्को नारावाजी गरेका छन् । चितवन कांग्रेसका सभापति जितनारायण श्रेष्ठले केन्द्रबाट तालमेल गर्न भनेर सर्कुलर आएकाले के गर्ने भनेर छलफल भइरहेको जानकारी दिए ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people 50
Actor 1 - Affiliations Nepali Congress and affiliated org
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Nepali Congress and affiliated org
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media , Local Newspaper - Saptari , Local Newspaper - Chitwan

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