Maoist agitators face public fury
May 7, 2010 by SAF Desk
Filed under News at a glance
KATHMANDU, MAY 06 -
Fed up to the gills of the general strike imposed by the UCPN (Maoist), enraged locals at various places in the Capital took to the streets and retaliated against the agitating Maoists on Thursday. In the ensuing clashes, 12 persons including a child were injured while two motorcycles were torched.
Tension ran high in Budhanilakantha, Jorpati, Boudhha, Kapan and Basundhara on the fifth day of the strike after the banda enforcers and enraged locals clashed. Police said over a dozen people were injured in course of anti-banda demonstrations.
Claiming that the Maoists forcibly imposed the banda, locals in Budhanilakantha swarmed out on the streets and defied the banda by opening market places. However, the situation turned nasty when a huge number of Maoist cadres reached there and threatened anyone who defied the strike.
Pulling down shutters, the banda enforcers pelted anti-strike locals with stones in which a nine-year-old child, Roshan Magar, sustained serious injury on his head, said Sub-inspector Bharat Regmi who was present during the clash. Magar was rushed to TU Teaching Hospital……….