Incident Reports

RJP-N cadres torch poll materials in Mahottari

2017-06-16

Madhes, Mahottari, Pipra

Cadres of the agitating Rashtriya Janata Party Nepal in Friday set fire to election related documents that were in possession of election officer of Pipara Rural Municipality. When Election Officer Lekhnath Luitel was about to leave the office of Pipara Municipality of Jaleswor, cadres of RJPN looted the documents at Parikauli Chowk of Janakpur-Jayanagar road section. According to him, at 7:30 am RJPN cadres stopped Luitel who was on a motorcycle and looted documents. The documents included election directives, election regulations, election code of conduct among other things. The party had called a general strike on Friday against governments decision to hold local election in the tarai.
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Arson
Weapons Fire
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people 10
Actor 1 - Affiliations Madhes-based Parties
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Other state institutions
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media , Local Newspaper - Dhanusha , Local Newspaper - Mahottari

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