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Brahmins‚ Chhetris call Nuwakot bandh
Added At: 2012-05-03 11:56 AM
Last Updated At: 2012-05-03 11:57 AM
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NUWAKOT: The United Brahmin Chhetri Society- Nuwakot has enforced the Nuwakot bandh on Thursday, affecting the normal life in the district.The Society called for the general strike demanding that no community should be discriminated against on ethnic grounds in the new constitution, that the state restructuring should be carried out on the basis of geography and class and not on ethnic lines and that the indigenous Brahmins, Chhetris among others, who have settled in the country for generations, should be declared the indigenous nationalities.
Transport services on the Pasang Lhamu highway is closed due to the bandh.The general strike has also affected life in the adjoining district Rasuwa.Factories, markets and educational institutions have down their shutters owing to the bandh
The local administration has mobilized a large number of security personnel in the district headquarters to prevent any untoward incident in course of the bandh
Cadres and activists of the organizations calling for the bandh have been enforcing the shutdown.
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