KATHMANDU, July 18: The Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) led by Netra Bikram Chanda has announced restriction on government vehicles bearing white number plate from plying the road from July 23, stated a press statement issued by the outlawed party on Wednesday.

“All the vehicles bearing white number are restricted from plying the road as part of our battle against government’s activities of banning the people’s party, torturing and murdering our cadres and restricting us from hold peaceful gatherings,” stated the press release.

The party has also warned not to go against their announcement otherwise “the vehicles will be taken under control and taken action against,” the statement reads.

The party has also directed its leaders and cadres to act according to the party decision.

News of the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’- led Group’s cadres torching transport vehicles in course of their country-wide general shutdown have been received from several places of the country.

Surkhet

The group’s cadres have set a passenger bus on fire at Gochekhola in east Surkhet this morning. The bus (Na 2 Kha 7444) was going towards Chhinchu from Gumi of Gurbhakot municipality-14. The cadres carrying arms stopped the bus and ordered the driver, his assistant and the bus owner to disembark before setting it on fire, the District Police Office said. The bus has been gutted by fire. A suspicious object was also found nearby, police said.

Makawanpur

Life in Makawanpur has been affected by the country-wide general shutdown organized by the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’ Group this morning. The Group’s cadres have torched trucks at two places in the course of the shutdown in Makawanpur. Police said a bomb was found at Buddhachowk in Hetauda and it has been defused by the Nepal Army. A parked mini-truck (Na 7 Kha 9496) was torched by some unidentified persons at around 1 am today. Similarly, a group of three people sprayed petrol in a truck and set it on fire. The truck (Na 6 Kha 8007) had stopped at Naukhandey and it was set on fire soon after it set out towards Hetauda at 4.15 am.

Nawalparasi

Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led Group’s cadres have made arson attack on a truck at 3 am today. They threw a petrol bomb on a truck (Lu 2 Kha 108) on the road at Madhyabindu municipality-11. The truck driver lost control of the vehicle and the truck fell five meters down from the road during the attack, it is learned. The truck driver, 33-year-old Amar BK of Byas municipality-4, Tanahu district has sustained injuries due to this. He has burn injuries in his face and back and is undergoing treatment at a local medical store. Similarly, a jeep came under petrol bomb attack by the Group’s cadres at 3.30 am at Kawasoti municipality-16, police stated. Meanwhile, police took under control and defused a gas cylinder that was readied for explosion at a field in Bulingtar rural municipality of Nawalparasi district. The cylinder bomb was found planted 300 meters from the house of the municipality chair, Sashi Kiran Bastakoti. RSS

NEW DELHI, March 15: Former Ambassador of India to Nepal Ranjit Rae has argued that Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has saved the nation from disintegration by welcoming CK Raut into main stream politics.

He also said that it was PM Oli’s brave decision to impose ban on Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’ led Communist Party of Nepal.

“Restricting Biplav group’s activities and reaching an agreement with CK Raut’s Independent Madesh Alliance was PM Oli’s brave decision,” he said to Rishi Dhamala, who is in New Delhi.

“We welcome this decision of Oli because Oli has saved the nation from disintegration,” he added.

He also said that SAARC summit has no meaning.

“SAARC summit comprising Pakistan can’t take place,” he said.

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KATHMANDU, March 12: The government has decided to restrict the activities of the semi-underground Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) led by Netra Bikram Chand.

A cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence on Tuesday took the decision to outlaw Biplav’s activities citing that CPN was losing its political character.

The government’s move come following a series of bombings and extortion carried out by the CPN in various parts of the country targeting wealthy businessmen rejecting the government’s call for a dialogue. The government started crackdown on Biplav group’s activities following the multiple bomb blasts on Ncell towers across the country including Nakhhu which claimed one life and injured two.

“It is the duty of the State to control them as they were gradually losing a political character,” said Foreign Minister Pradip Kumar Gyawali after the meeting.

Accordingly, the government has decided to control the activities of the party.

“Concluding that the group’s activities were of criminal nature, the government decided to prohibit its activities,” he added.

With the decision, the party could be restricted from carrying out political functions and rallies

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KAILALI, May 8: All Nepal Independent Students’ Union-Revolutionary close to CPN (Maoist) led by Netra Bikram Chand has enforced an indefinite educational strike in Kailali beginning from today.

The students’ union claimed that the strike was against the arrest of student leaders Bimal Dhami and Ramesh Saud, following an incident of vandalism in course of the joint agitation of students unions against the fees hike in private schools on May 5.

“The two are facing a false case in the District Police Office, Kailali in connection to the vandalism and abuse against RC Yadav, PABSON’s Kailali former chair in course of the general strike on May 5,” the Union’s vice-president for Kailali district, Jhalak Bishwokarma claimed in a press statement that was issued on the eve of the strike.

“The student leaders arrested in connection to the May 5 incident are totally innocent,” the statement added, demanding their immediate release.

Kailali Police Spokesperson and Deputy Superintendent of Police Bir Bahadur Budamagar said Saud is under trial on a public offense case while police have not arrested Dhami as claimed by the agitating student union. RSS