One more died Wednesday in the indefinite general strike called on by the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) as it continued to affect south Nepal's Teraiplains for the 15th consecutive day.
In Duhabi of Sunsari district, some 220 km southeast of the Nepali capital Kathmandu, a local resident, Biskut Miya, 35, who came out to buy basic needs Wednesday morning, while in curfew, died from police bullet. Other five were injured in the incident, according to Nepali national news agency RSS.
This brought to five the number of people killed over the strike period.
Meanwhile, in Kathmandu, leaders of UDMF are said to be preparing to hold another round of talks with the government.
After the government refused to postpone the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, its talks with UDMF had been suspended.
On Wednesday, top leaders of Nepali Seven-party Alliance (SPA) agreed to continue talks with the agitating UDMF to find out a consensus on UMDF's six-point of demand.
UDMF is an alliance of three major agitating Madhes-based parties --- Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF), Terai-Madhes Democratic Party (TMDP) and Sadbhavana Party. It has put forth a six-point demand to the government and required that to be met and included in amended Interim Constitution before the CA elections. The demand includes an autonomous Madhes state with a republican order and right to self-determination.
The CA elections are slated on April 10, and the CA is to decide the future political set-up of Nepal and the fate of monarchy.
Madhesi people are the Nepalese mainly living in south Nepal's Terai plains, who are socio-culturally close to the bordering Indians.
Source: Xinhua
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