Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is staging a demonstration in the Kathmandu Valley on Tuesday.
RPP has been staging demonstrations to pile pressure on the government to fulfill its demands after it submitted a 40-point charter of demands to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on February 21.
Rallies are being taken out from a dozen places in the federal capital. RPP Chairman Rajendra Lingden and senior leader Pashupati Shamsher Rana are participating in the demonstrations.
Cadres from Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and other adjoining districts are arriving to take part in the demonstration, said party spokesperson Mohan Shrestha.
Chairman Lingden is scheduled to address the mass meeting at Bhrikuti Mandap.
What are RPP’s demands?
RPP has been demanding reinstatement of constitutional monarchy as a ‘guardian of the state’, Nepal as the Hindu kingdom and an immediate control in the religious conservation. Similarly, the party has demanded scrapping the provincial structures and keeping only two tiers of government—central and local.
The other demands include a directly elected executive head and a constitutional and legal cap of two terms in the executive positions.
Meanwhile, security personnel used water cannons after the protestors went unruly and tried to remove dividers on the road.
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