The five agitating political parties have announced general strikes in Kathmandu Valley on Saturday to protest the police clampdown on the anti-regression demonstration on Friday. A meeting of the five parties this evening took the decision. 

As per the decision, rallies will be organized at various parts of the city beginning early in the morning and a joint rally will be held at 4pm from Ratnapark. 

Parties have said police used excessive force to disrupt the peaceful agitations in which over hundred central leaders and activists were injured.