Dhangadi locals on Thursday called for a strike against the proposal submitted by special parliamentary committee at the Province 7 Assembly on shifting the province capital from Dhangadi to Godawari in Kailali. The five-member committee led by Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chief Whip Tara Lama Tamang had submitted its report to the provincial assembly meeting on Tuesday. Local markets, transport services, educational institutions have remained shut following the strike led by local leaders and cadres of main opposition Nepali Congress. The NC has also objected to the fact that the proposed provincial capital will be made by destroying a forest area west of the Dhangadhi-Dadeldhura road section in Godawari Municipality-4, Kailali. The proposed place is about 20km from Dhangadhi—the temporary provincial capital. “We will not accept the proposal to shift the province capital from Dhangadi to a forest area at the foothills of Chure range,” said NC leader Hari Regmi. On Wednesday, Dhangadi Sub-Metropolitan City Mayor Nrip Bahadur Od had also taken part in the protest programme organised in front of the Province Assembly. Addressing the protest programme, Mayor Od warned that if the province Capital is shifted from Dhangadi, all province assembly members should leave the Sub-Metropolis within 24-hrs. Meanwhile, the main opposition yesterday tabled another proposal with Sudurpaschim as province name and Dhangadi as province capital. A voting is likely to be conducted on Friday on the proposals tabled by the special parliament committee and the NC. As per the constitutional provision, the provincial assembly has the authority to name and designate the provincial capital by a two-thirds majority. The NCP has the required numerical strength in the assembly. प्रदेश ७ को राजधानी धनगढीबाट कैलालीको गोदावरी नगरपालिका, ४ तेघरी सार्न खोजिएको विरोधमा बिहीबार धनगढी बन्द गरिएको छ । राजधानी नसार्न दवाव दिँदै धनगढीवासीले एकदिनका लागि आमहड्ताल गरेका हुन् । बन्दका कारण जनजीवन प्रभावित भएको छ । बन्दले शैक्षिक संस्था, यातायात, कलकारखाना, बजार ठप्प छन् । धनगढी बजारमा अटो सिक्सा समेत चलेका छैनन् । बन्दकर्ताहरू बजारमा खुल्ला रहेका पसल र अटो रिक्सा बन्द गराउन लागिरहेका छन् । उनीहरूले अस्थायी राजधानीका लागि धनगढीमा करोडौ रुपैयाँ खर्च भइसकेको बताउदै जङगल मासेर गोदावरीमा राजधानी नबनाउन आग्रह गरेका छन् । बन्दलाई मध्यनजर गर्दै बजार क्षेत्रमा ठूलो संख्यामा प्रहरी परिचालन गरिएको छ ।