Incident Reports

Cadres of Nepali Congress vandalize party's ward office in Chitwan over candidacy for ward chairperson's post

2022-05-04

Bagmati, Chitawan, Ratnanagar, Ward 12

Cadres of Nepali Congress (NC) vandalized the party's ward office in Ratnanagar Municipality of  Chitwan on May 4, after the candidacy for the post of chairperson of Ward 12 of the municipality was  awarded to CPN (Maoist Center) as part of electoral alliance. Furious NC cadres vandalized furniture, threw NC flag on the street and padlocked the party office.

NC cadres who were campaigning for Anita Aryal as the candidate for Ward 12's  chairperson were agitated after the party decided to nominate CPN (Maoist Centre)'s Sundarmani Subedi for the same post in the name of electoral alliance.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Vandalism
Secondary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Weapons None
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Secondary Cause Intraparty Competition
Actor 1 - Number of people n/a
Actor 1 - Affiliations Nepali Congress and affiliated org
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Nepali Congress and affiliated org
Actor 2 - Youth unknown
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