Students affiliated with the All Nepal Free Students Union (ANNFSU), the student wing of the CPN (UML), on Sunday staged protest rallies in Kathmandu against an attempt by hooligans to attack the party’s central office yesterday.
Students staged demonstration in front of Amrit Science Campus and Sarawsoti Campus at Lainchour, chanting slogans against the royal government. They claimed the armed gangsters who tried to attack the UML central office in Balkhu were sanctioned by the government.
The area remained tense as the students and the police clashed during the protest. However, no violent incident was reported during the protest.
Similarly, hundreds of UML activists took to the streets in Pokhara this afternoon to protest the bid to vandalize the party’s central office. Reports said the rally that started from Naya Bazaar marched past major thoroughfares of the tourist town and ended in a mass meeting at Prithivi Chowk.
Published reports today said a group of around 200 supporters of the February 1 royal move drove around Ring Road of the capital on motorbikes chanting pro-king slogans and carrying national flags. The group, reportedly affiliated to the youth wing of the ‘nationalist front,’ held a meeting at Kalanki and warned that it would bring down the UML central office in retaliation of an alleged attack on the convoy of Crown Prince Paras by UML supporters on Friday.