Kathmandu, June 8:

Transport entrepreneurs today staged a sit-in in front of the Nepal Oil Corporation at Babarmahal and demanded immediate end of shortage of petroleum products.

They also threatened to lock out petroleum depots throughout the country if the problem were not solved in two days.

Likening the mess in management of petroleum products to Gaijatra, Krishna Prasad Adhikary, general secretary of the Federation of Nepali National Transport Entrepreneurs, said: “We have decided to lock out all the petroleum depots throughout the nation if the government failed to provide sufficient fuel within next two days.”

He said the federation’s meeting to be held tomorrow would come up with further protest plans.

Adhikary said the transport entrepreneurs also staged protests at the local petroleum depots across the country today.

Hundreds of entrepreneurs involved in the protest programme had demanded an end to fuel adulteration and black market.