Cleaners of Birgunj Metropolitan have stopped work since Saturday condemning misbehaviour towards them. They have accused police of continually assaulting and verbally abusing the cleaners. 

The garbage is piling in Birgunj after the strike started. Birgunj metropolitan office has contracted a company, and they also mobilize their own cleaning staff to collect garbage. 

The workers claim that police assaulted Chhote Lal Prasad Kusuwaha, a cleaning staff, on Thursday and seized his motorcycle. Police again reportedly misbehaved with cleaners near Maisthan while they were taking garbage towards the landfill site on Friday evening. The cleaners have lamented that they were facing abuse at the hands of police even while they were fulfilling their duty despite the lockdown.