The alliance of seven opposition political parties announced fresh protest programmes to disrupt the municipal poll slated for February 8 and for the restoration of complete democracy in the country.
According to the protest schedule publicized following a meeting of the central people’s movement coordination committee of the alliance on Friday, the alliance will give continuity to pamphleting, door-to-door campaigns, and corner meetings till next Tuesday.
The alliance activists will burn the effigies of autocracy and have corner meetings in each and every ward of all municipalities across the nation on Saturday. The alliance also plans torch rallies at various places of the Valley on Saturday.
The alliance has announced a village-to-city walk campaign on Sunday and student demonstrations against the polls across the nation on Monday. The alliance will hold women’s rallies across the nation on Tuesday.
Kathmandu will see a protest rally from Gaushala at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The rally would converge into a mass protest meeting at New Baneshwor.
The alliance will observe February 1 as a “black day” and will hold nationwide black flag protest demonstrations and mass meetings. Senior leaders of the alliance will also address a mass meeting at Basantpur in the capital on the same day.
The Mass Movement Coordination Committee’s meeting has also called on all sections of the society including teachers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists, writers, artists and intellectuals to participate in the movement launched against autocracy and to launch their own protest programmes.
The alliance has also condemned indiscriminate use of force against the people participating in peaceful demonstrations.
Meanwhile, the seven-party alliance affiliated student wings also held a joint meeting in the capital on Friday to express their solidarity to the protest programmes of the seven opposition alliance.