Incident Reports

Locals padlock ward office along with chairman

2018-04-26

Province 1, Udayapur, Chaudandigadhi

Locals of Udaypur Chaudandi Municipality have padlocked the ward no 9 office along with the ward chairman on Friday. The irate locals padlocked the office along with ward chairman Prakash Raut at 10 am this morning accusing him of misbehaving with one service seeker Prem Kumar Khadka. The locals, in a statement issued following the incident, have accused the ward chairman of adopting discriminating behaviour with various service seekers. The statement says that ward chairman Raut verbally abused Khadka and hurled his shoes towards the latter. Meanwhile, ward chairman Raut has accused Khadka of being involved in irregularities by being a member consumers committee when he is a permanent teacher. Chairman Raut accused Khadka of misbehaving as he had denied recommendation letter to the latter for doing works at the consumers committee. Ward chairman Raut said that Khadka among others detained him by padlocking the office while doing the people’s work.
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Issues related to the quality of public services (health, education etc.)and access to these services
Actor 1 - Number of people 50
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
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
National/Online Media , Local Newspaper - Rautahat

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