By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Jan. 26: The Prachanda-Nepal faction of Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which is agitating against the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR), has announced third phase of its agitation.
The central struggle committee led by party spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha has made public its agitation programmes, which will begin from January 26 and last until February 10.
Organising a press meet at Parisdanda on Monday, the faction announced that it would hold a whistle-blowing procession in Kathmandu on Tuesday and stage a sit-in at Maitighar Mandala from January 27 to February 3.
Members of the Constituent Assembly, members of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies will also participate in the sit-in, it said.
Similarly, the struggle committee informed that a mass meeting will be held in Butwal on January 28, in Biratnagar on January 29 and in Dhangadhi on January 30.
Pampha Bhusal, co-coordinator of the struggle committee, said the party chairmen and senior leaders would address the mass meetings.
She further informed that a youth rally will take place in Kathmandu on February 4, a nation-wide torch rally will be organised on February 8 and a massive protest in Kathmandu on February 10.
The Prachanda-Nepal faction had also organised a mass meeting in Kathmandu on January 22.
Addressing the leaders and cadres from Province-2 at Parisdanda on Monday, party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said the recently organised mass gathering had created a wave in both Nepal and international arena.
He claimed that the demonstration on February 10 would be even bigger and would bring the entire country to Kathmandu.
Speaking at the same event, another chairman of the faction Madhav Kumar Nepal said they had 70 per cent of the 441-member central committee accepted by the Election Commission, Nepal (ECN).
He further said it would not make any difference, even if the ECN refused to consider him as the party chairman.