KATHMANDU: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) lawmaker Sobita Gautam has strongly criticized the government, accusing it of killing the nation’s future by using guns against demonstrators.
In a social media post, she said the government had many alternatives to disperse protesters but chose to fire directly.
“Suppressing dissent with bullets is not bravery but cowardice,” she wrote.
She added that young people, who came to the streets without political motives but with demands for equality and justice, should have been protected by the government, not shot at. “This is murder,” she said.
Calling it a repeat of authoritarian governance, Gautam remarked, “Spilling people’s blood to protect power is the ugly face of authoritarianism. The government that fires bullets on innocent youth is not of the people, but of power-hungry rulers, a government with a terrorist mindset.”
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