Deadline for New Constitution to be promulgated is within a week but there is still no standing consensus among key parties as Maoists backed from the 11 state agreement to demarcate the federal state lines from federal Commission. At first Madhesi Parties within the government had reservation regarding the agreement but later open fired at the agreement and threatened to pull out. While Madhesi Parties, outside the government and Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) lambasted three parties for making such incomplete agreement and took it as a ploy to make incomplete Constitution. NEFIN also had reservation of putting Bramhan,Chhetri in the Indigenous list as Khas Arya, for which they had agreed with the government to revoke the indefinite General Strike. Though Another Madhesi Alliance (Broader Madhesi Front) Led by Upendra Mahato (also Opposition Party leader) lets the government to table and pass the bill for shortening the process of Constitution promulgation, he backs up the three days General Strike(Nepal Bandh) organized by NEFIN. Demanding ethnicity based federalism and the implementation of State Restructuring Committee, the protestors from different ethnic and indigenous groups poured into the street and brought the nation to a standstill closing transportation and markets. From the early Morning, they started vandalizing vehicles not only from General public but also of various media houses, ambulance and tourist bus too and even manhandled various Journalists from Media houses. Protestors blamed the media houses of having bias against them for not giving news about their bandh and that's the reason behind their attack. The media houses were in target in these huge numbers just like they had planned for this before as told by the Journalists under attack. And also this is a record in the history of Nepal that these huge number of media vehicles vandalized and media persons manhandled.
Here are some pictures of Vehicles Vandalized today by NEFIN.
Meanwhile in a press meet up at Reporters Club, Ang Kaji Sherpa, General Secretary NEFIN made controversial remarks about the journalists which proves today's media houses attack to be well planned act. The Federation of Nepali Journanlists has condemned the attack on media by the bandh enforcers on Sunday. FNJ also condemned the controversial remarks by Ang Kaji Sherpa at Reporters Club.
Here is what Ang Kaji Sherpa spoke at Reporters Club.
