Maoists call 2 day DAO gherao

THT Online

KATHMANDU: UCPN-Maoist have called a two-day gherao programme in the district administration offices throughout the nation on Wednesday.

According to a source the ghrerao programme is scheduled during office hours.

They have been staging sit in protests in front of the main gates of the offices and disrupting the daily programme of the offices.

According to UCPN-Maoist, central leaders and CA members are participating in the sit in protests.

Protesters have organised cultural programmes in front of the offices to stop the employees from entering.

The Kathmandu District Administration Office Singha Durbar has been gheraoed from the Babarmahal side and the Singha Durbar side by labourers and sister oganisations of UCPN-Maoist respectively.

Transportation in the areas has been affected due to the gherao programme.

On the very first day they had staged a torch rally on Sunday and on the second day they had organised a gherao programme in the VDCs and Metropolitan offices as a part of the protests on Monday.

Earlier Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal had directed heads of the four security institutions - Nepal Army, Armed Police, Nepal Police and National Investigation Department to remain on high alert and to formulate a strategy on the Maoists protests in a meet on Tuesday.

The government has deployed heavy security in the sensitive areas of the agitations as a precaution to prevent violence.

Meanwhile, in Inaruwa, 18 Maoist workers were injured when the police attacked them while they were staging a protest. Four of them sustained injuries to the head while others were injured on their arms and legs.