Incident Reports

Local representatives padlock the municipality office

2019-09-04

Lumbini, Gulmi, Resunga

The local representatives of the Resunga municipality have padlocked the office of the municipality in connection with the conflict-related to the local school. 

Seven ward heads and three executive members of the municipality had padlocked the office of mayor Dilliraj Bhusal and the administrative head Bhaktiram Marasini. There was an underlying dispute about the nomination of the center head for the class twelve examination. 

Other reasons for padlocking were the secretive and authoritative decision-making process in the municipality, said Akhileshwar Prasad Pandey, the  Chairman of ward no 1. 

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Issues related to policies and regulations internal to the government bureaucracy (e.g. civil servants wages, work conditions and promotions)
Actor 1 - Number of people 10
Actor 1 - Affiliations Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 2
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 - Rupandehi

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