Cadres of CPN (Biplov) padlocked border bridge connecting Darchula district headquarters Khalanga and India on December 29, claiming that India has been exploiting. Bharat Malla, CPN Darchula secretary said that the border bridge was locked as the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was harassing Nepali citizens under various pretexts. The SSB is currently seeking citizenship and vaccination cards of Nepalis entering Indian territory. 

SSB has been admitting people by keeping personal details including name, citizenship number, father's name in Dharchula. Bhuban Joshi, Secretary of CPN-Darchula said that these rules of SSB are just imposed on Nepali citizen just to exploit them.