DAMAK: Locals of Gauradaha bazaar, south west of Jhapa district, boycotted a programme organised by the Unified CPN-Maoists today to protest the ‘unconstitutional move’ of President Dr Ram Baran Yadav.

The locals had boycotted the incident as UCPN-M activists had vandalised houses of the locals in Gauradaha on June 6 for defying a bandh called by the Maoist. They had also vandalised the house of CPN-UML CA member Dipak Karki in Gauradaha the same day.

Following the incident, Gauradaha denizens boycotted today’s programme of the UCPN-M. Locals and businessmen conspicuously closed down the market and remained absent in the programme. Security situation had also been beefed up prior to the programme where large number of security personnel were deployed in the area.

Meanwhile, at the programme, UCPN-M leaders said that they were not going to deter from their revolutionary ways until positive and productive changes in the nation. Speaking at the programme, CA member Purna Singh Rajbanshi said that factors which were just mere pawns of international pressure were creating anarchy and chaos in the nation. He also accused the other political parties of only being interested in their petty interests rather than developing the nation.

Similarly, CA member Dharmashila Chapagain accused the Nepali Congress and the UML of buckling up to foreign pressure and hindering the development of the nation.

“Only the UCPN-M can materialise the campaign of a new Nepal,” added Chapagain. Maoist CA member Gaurishankar Khadka stressed the need of ending anarchy and impunity in the nation.

Meanwhile, Maoist leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara who was scheduled to attend today’s programme was not present at the function.Maoist cadres from different parts of the district had also taken out a rally which had gone through different thoroughfares of the city.