Normal life hit in Terai area over constitution drafting issue

Normal life in 20 districts in Terai region along the Indo-Nepal border was affected today in response to a strike call mainly by the Madhesi parties who are opposing the draft of the country’s new constitution.

In Jhapa, vehicles remained off the road. The vehicles of both long and short routes to and from the district were not plying during the day.

The Federal Socialist Forum Nepal, Terai-Madhes Democratic Party, Sadbhawana Party and Terai-Madhes Sadbhawana party had called for a one day general strike across 20 districts of the Terai alleging that the major parties did not listen to their demands of providing more rights and representation to the Madhesi people living in Nepal’s southern plains bordering India. The Madhes-based parties have also asked the big parties to delineate the provincial units and fix their names before promulgating the constitution.