SINDHULI: Traffic movement along the BP Highway that was obstructed by transport entrepreneurs since Wednesday morning has resumed.

Protesters had cleared the obstructions after a police team that reached on the site warned of using force to resume the traffic.

SP Uma Shankar Panjiyar, who had reached the site, said that they had no choice than to clear the road forcefully  after the road was closed even to emergency services like ambulances and police vans.

Passenger vehicles heading towards eastern districts from Kathmandu and vice versa had been stuck midway.

After the government revoked its decision to grant temporary route permits to operate vehicles following a fatal road accident in Dhading on Tuesday, the transport entrepreneurs said, they had to resort to such option.

They demanded that the government should take back the decision.

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Transport entrepreneurs shut BP Highway

SINDHULI: Transport entrepreneurs have shut traffic movement along the BP Highway since Wednesday morning, leaving hundreds of passengers planning to go home to celebrate Dashain festival stranded halfway.

Passenger vehicles heading towards eastern districts from Kathmandu and vice versa have been stuck midway. The road has been blocked as the vehicles are being parked haphazardly.

The transport entrepreneurs said they resorted to the move after the government revoked its decision to grant temporary route permits to operate vehicles following a fatal road accident in Dhading on Tuesday that left at least 19 people dead and over a dozen injured.

Purushottam Sharma, who is affiliated with the BP Transport Service Committee, accused the government of trying to jeopardise their business by not implementing its earlier decision to grant temporary route permits.

He demanded that the government should take back the decision. A dozen transport entrepreneurs have thrown their support to the protest.