Kathmandu, April 17:

Nepali Congress (NC) spokesman Krishna Prasad Sitaula today appealed for wider public participation in the agitation programme scheduled for Thursday when the alliance plans to demonstrate its strength by attracting the maximum number of demonstrators along the 27-km Ring Road.

“Our appeal is to all those people who belong to one association or another and have issued statements backing the current movement. They would do well to turn up flaunting their own banner on the appointed day,” Sitaula said.

Urging civil servants to lock up their offices and join the demo, Sitaula also claimed that the alliance would attract demonstrators from Village Development Committees (VDCs) who would march on the Ring Road and brave prohibitory orders.

The alliance also expects at least one member of each family to join the monstration. “Those who do not want to actually join the demo are welcome to just come to the Ring Road and watch others agitate for democracy,” he said.

An appeal has also been issued to transporters’ unions, airlines professionals including pilots and cabin crew working the civil aviation sector, among others, asking them not to cooperate with the regime and thus contribute to the cause of restoring demoncracy.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the United Valley Mass Movement Committee (UVMMC) apart from issuing a call to all to take part in the Thursday demonstration on Ring Road, has also urged the people to come out of their houses at 7 pm on Wednesday and raise slogans against regression for at least 10 minutes. The committee l has also issued a call to bring everything to a standstill.