INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, September 30
Scores of people staged a protest at Maitighar Mandala expressing solidarity with anti-corruption campaigner
Gyanendra Shahi, who was allegedly attacked by the cadres of Nepal communist Party (NCP) on Saturday in Chitwan.
The protesters accused the
government of unleashing terror and trying to gag those who spoke against the government.
Speaking to THT during the protest programme,
Surendra Bhandari, a senior advocate, said the government had resorted to state terror after failing to control his anti-corruption
campaign.
&The ruling party used its cadres to attack Shahi after it failed to silence him through legal means,& Bhandari said.
Shahi was
pulled into controversy after he confronted Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai for delaying a Kathmandu-bound
flight from Nepalgunj earlier this month, the video of the confrontation was widely shared on social media.
Shahi supporters said that after
the confrontation inside the flight,a group of people had misbehaved with him at a press meet at Reporter club in Maitighar.
He was again
ill-treated by the same group of people at another press meet held in Lalitpur on September 15.
Shahi was then taken into custody by police
from the press meet citing security concerns
Although released on the same day, he was again manhandled at his own office in Pulchowk a few days later.
Several other speakers at the
protest programme said that attack on Shahi was simplya reflection of the government frustration after it failed to deliver and keep the
promises made during elections.
Members of the anti-corruption campaign have decided to file a case against the people involved in the
attack with Metropolitan Police Range, Teku, tomorrow.
Sajha party slams attack
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