Rajbiraj, February 10

CPN (Maoist) Coordinator Matrika Prasad Yadav today accused the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) of aborting the Tarai agitation and betraying the Madhes and Madhesi people.

He held that to call off the agitation without consulting the alliances and fronts involved in the agitation was an insult to martyrs killed during the prolonged Tarai agitation.

Speaking at a press meet organised to make public the decisions of the meeting of Madhesi National Agitation Committee held in Rajbiraj, Yadav alleged that UDMF had aborted the Tarai agitation lured by certain temptation.

“Some Madhes-based parties ruined the Madhesi people by spreading the rumour of Madhes liberation,” Yadav charged.

Meanwhile, the meeting of the committee put forth a charter of demands, including waiver of tax, interest and others levies during the agitation period.

The meeting also demanded relief for martyrs’ families, treatment of those injured in the agitation, scrapping of false cases levelled against the leaders and cadres, among others.

Similarly, the committee announced agitation programmes from February 13 to March 4.

The committee has also formed a talks team led by Gopal Thakur to make a comprehensive front to galvanise the agitation in the plains.

Tarai agitation will continue: Upendra Yadav

Birgunj, February 10

Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav today said preparations were on to launch a decisive agitation from Tarai/Madhes, hill and the mountains simultaneously.

Speaking at his party’s programme in Dewapur of Bara, Yadav held that they would give continuity to their agitation until the ethnic and marginalised people from Tarai, hills and mountains were guaranteed rights from the centre.

“Rulers may be enjoying the idea of Tarai agitation being aborted, but we are ushering in a storm of agitation from all three regions to empower the backward and marginalised people,” Yadav said.

Yadav said the agitation had not ended; they had just changed the form of protest. Yadav argued that Madhes agitation had broken the backbone of the rulers in Kathmandu.

“Our agitation is on and we shall give continuity to it till Madhesi, and all other backward people are guaranteed rights,” Yadav added.