Students and youths affiliated to opposition parties have been demonstrating at Putalisadak and Bagh Bazar area Friday morning on the second day of their protests against the government.

The students also burnt tyres on the main roads defying the government’s ban on the same.

Chairman of Nepal Students Union– student wing of the opposition Nepali Congress, Keshav Singh, said they would try to stop Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba from going to his office at Singha Durbar Friday.

Singh and dozens of other student activists were injured during clashes with Police at Pulchowk area Thursday when they tried to stop ministers from going to their ministries at Singha Durbar.

Agitating students said they were protesting against the recent price hike in petroleum products and the royal move of October 2002, which they describe as ‘regression.’

Police briefly detained nearly two dozen activists Thursday and later released them.

Friday’s protests have disrupted traffic in the Putalisadak -Singha Durbar area and have caused inconvenience to people going to their offices.

“Instead of clashing with police, demonstrators should find peaceful means of protest,” Dinesh Shrestha, a shopkeeper at Bagh Bazar told Nepalnews. He said daily demonstrations and clashes had hurt local businesses badly.