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Protesters start sit-in demanding Dipayal as Province 7 capital
Locals of Doti on Tuesday started a sit-in protest outside the Far-Western Regional Administration Office to press the demand of state capitalhood.Locals of Doti on Tuesday started a sit-in protest outside the Far-Western Regional Administration Office to press the demand of state capitalhood.
The struggle committee, which had started off the protest with a general strike, said that they have changed their tact considering inconvenience to the public for the last two weeks. Narendra Khadka, coordinator of the struggle committee, said they are continuing their struggle with the demand of state capitalhood. “We have decided to pressure the government by staging sit-in in the Regional Administration Office of Rajapur from 12 noon to2 pm each day,” he said.
The normal life of hill districts in Province 7 was adversely affected by the banda in Dipayal for the last 13 days. That resulted in the shortage of daily essentials, including cooking oil, iodised salt, essential medicines, construction materials in the province’s hill districts.