Incident Reports

Opposition parties stage torch rally

2015-01-20

Bagmati, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

 Opposition forces both in and outside the Constituent Assembly on Monday staged torch rallies across the country in protest of a planned promulgation of new constitution through the voting process. A joint alliance of UCPN (Maoist), CPN-Maoist, CPN-Revolutionary and Janajati forces paraded across major cities and towns with torch in hands, chanting slogans against the ruling Nepali Congress and CPN-UML. The protesters had staged "whistle-blowing" rallies on Sunday under planned protest programmes charted out by the Mohan Baidya led CPN-Maoist. The opposition alliance has announced a nationwide general strike on Tuesday.
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Contestation over Constitution and federal restructuring
Actor 1 - Number of people n/a
Actor 1 - Affiliations Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation
Actor 1 - Entity CPN M
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Nepali Congress and affiliated org UML and affiliated org
Actor 2 - Youth na
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