Incident Reports

Two RJP-Nepal cadres arrested

2017-06-18

Sudurpashchim, Kailali, Dhangadhi

Police have today arrested two central committee members of the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal for carrying out activities to obstruct the filing of nominations by candidates standing in the second phase of local level elections. The arrested are Foniram Chaudhary and Sunita Chaudhary. They were arrested while burning tyres on the road to halt the nomination process. Chief District Officer, Govinda Prasad Rijal told the RSS that they were taken under control from Hasuliya area of Kailali district. Filing of nomination has been taking place in a peaceful manner in other local levels of the district. Second round of local-level election is scheduled for June 28. Candidates of political parties as well as independent candidates have reached the Office of the Election Officer and are filing their nominations. The district has a sub-metropolitan city and six municipalities and six rural municipalities and has 403,280 voters. RSS
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Other forms of non-violent protest
Secondary Form Arrest (politically significant)
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people 2
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 - Parsa , Local Newspaper - Kailali

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