Himalayan News Service

Kathmandu, July 7:

Defying prohibitory orders, eight student unions today organized a rally and burnt effigies of ‘regression’ at Baneshwor even as police rounded up seven agitating students in Baglung and Janakpurdham. In Baneshwor, police intervened a demonstration and tried to snatch the half-burnt effigies. The students chanted slogans against the royal move and demanded immediate restoration of democracy. The students have decided to organise public hearing programmes on ‘full democracy’ and the significance of their movement in Jhapa (on July 10), Biratnagar (July 12), Rajbiraj (July 14), Dhanusha (July 24), Chitwan (July 26), Baglung (July 28), Pokhara (July 29), Butwal (August 7), Gorahi (August 9), Nepalgunj (August 11) and Jumla (August 21). In Baglung, police intervened a rally organised by student unions affiliated to the seven political parties and arrested four students, who were burning effigies of

‘regression’ at Birendra Path. Meanwhile, a report from Janakpurdham said police today arrested three persons while they were preparing to stage a torch rally. Those arrested included NSU central member Nawal Kishore Yadav, district president Hari Narayan Yadav and Jitendra Kumar Jha, Dhanusha president of the Nepal Students’ Forum.