Incident Reports

Pokhara students burn Modi’s effigy

2020-05-10

Gandaki, Kaski, Pokhara Lekhnath

Student union leaders in Pokhara have burned an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their protest against India’s announcement of the inauguration of a link road to Manasarovar that passes through Gunji village of the Nepali territory as per the Sugauli Treaty.

After they burned the effigy, police detained four of them. They have been identified as Kshitij Sapkota, Bishal Tamang, Binaya Adhikari, and Milan Subedi. They are all local leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party’s student union.

Sapkota, also a central committee member of the union, says they protested the country’s submissiveness calling to protect the national independence, but police detained them.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Secondary Form Detention of Protesters
Primary Cause Other political issues
Secondary Cause Freedom of Assembly
Actor 1 - Number of people 10
Actor 1 - Affiliations Left Alliance (CPN-MC, UML & others)
Actor 1 - Youth youth
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Other state institutions
Actor 2 - Youth na
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