Police intervene candle rally of students; 12 injured

March 23, 2006
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Twelve students were injured when police intervened in a symbolic silent ‘candle rally’ by the students affiliated to the Nepal Students’ Union (NSU) from Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus at Ghantaghar demanding ‘internal democracy’ in the party.

Bikash Koirala, Deepak Bhattarai (TC Free Student Union (FSU) chairman), Ananda Khanal, Purusottam Mahat, Rajendra Prasai, Rajendra Bastola, Anil Khanal, Surendra Tripathi, Raj Kumar Dhakal, Anup Raj Pokhrel, Samir Khatiwada and Kiran Sitaula were badly beaten by the police. Out of them, seven students sustained serious injuries.

Connecting the Saraswati Multiple Campus incident where the NSU joined hands with the National Democratic Students Union, Bikash Koirala, a former central member alleged that both the NSU central committee and Home Minister were behind the incident.

Deepak Bhattarai, TC FSU chairman, said they would organise a similar kind of protest programme tomorrow at noon against the attack on the students.

The NSU dissident faction had threatened to form a parallel central committee if the existing committee continued working against the principal guided by the Union and did not withdraw the action taken against the seven students who were blamed for vandalising the NSU central office on March 16.