Eight student unions affiliated to various agitating political parties have said they would organize a series of activities to make the general strike called by the parties from April 6 to 9 a success.
Interaction programmes between the students and other associations – including human rights activists, civil society leaders, teachers, trade union leaders, professors, engineers and businessmen – working for peace and democracy will be organised between March 23 and 28. The unions said they will organize street rallies as part of their promotional programmes for the movement from March 28. The students will also hold some special programmes from April 2 to 4.
The students bodies, meanwhile, appealed to both warring groups not to carryout any violent activities within education institutions and declare that children and schools as zones of peace.
The seven-party opposition alliance has announced a general strike from April 6 and mass demonstration on April 8 in Kathmandu.