As the voting on articles of the Revised Draft of Constitution Bill 2072 was being held in the Constituent Assembly (CA), situation outside the assembly building at New Baneshwor became tense after supporters of Omkar Pariwar clashed with security personnel on Monday.

The Pariwar supporters, who have been in protest demanding reinstatement of Nepal as Hindu state, tried to stormed into the prohibited zone as the news filtered through that the amendment proposal submitted by the pro-Hindu Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal to declare Nepal as a Hindu nation by scrapping secularism as mentioned in the revised draft had been rejected by a majority.

Police used water canon to disperse the crowd from the area. Around 13 protesters are reported to have sustained injuries in the clash. The protesters had vandalised a vehicle belonging to the United Nations.

Photo journalists Navesh Chitrakar of Reuters and Prakash Mathema of Agence France-Presse and Ashok Maharjan of Onlinekhabar Patrika had their cameras broken during the incident.