KATHMANDU: The normal life has been affected due to the general strike called by the Prachanda-Nepal faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) in the capital on Thursday.
The government has tightened the security situation and urged the people in general to defy the bandh.
According to the Nepal Police, vehicular movement is low across the country today than on other regular days. Police Spokesperson and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Basanta Bahadur Kunwar shared that as many as 112 shutdown enforcers have been detained from different parts of the Kathmandu Valley.
Among the detainees are NCP standing committee members Asta Laxmi Shakya, Hitmman Shakya and Amrita Thapa Magar. The vehicular flow is gradually increasing on the roads of the Valley now.
A taxi was torched in Samakhusi this morning, SSP Kunwar said, adding except for this incident now any untoward event has been reported so far.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has urged all to operate their vehicular enterprises, business, industries and professional works without any hesitation.
The arrested are Milan Tamang, Samir Tamang, Ramesh Tamang, Raj Kumar Tamang and Rajendra Pandey, informed Ram Prasad Sapkota, the coordinator of the National Youth Association. Similarly, other 35 cadres of the disgruntled faction have been arrested from different areas while they were engaged in halting the transport system and enforcing bandh.
The Kathmandu Valley-bound night buses have entered the Valley via Nagdhunga. The vehicles ferrying dairy and agricultural products are operating.
The disgruntled breakaway faction, which has been agitating against the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR), has called a general strike today.
The Prachanda-Nepal has called the general strike on the eve of the huge mass meeting to be organized by the Oli-led faction on Friday.
Chairman of NCP Bagmati Province Narayan Dahal said the general strike has been announced to protest the appointments of the office-bearers in the Constitutional Bodies, and the “unconstitutional” move of Prime Minister KP Oli.
The Prachanda-Nepal faction, opposition parties including Nepali Congress, has been staging demonstrations after President Bidya Bhandari dissolved the HoR on the recommendation of the cabinet on December 20.
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