Tens of thousands of students held hands, waved banners
and chanted slogans in Nepal’s capital on Friday to protest against a
border blockade that has caused severe shortages of fuel and an increase
in food prices.
The students lined the Ring Road
which circles Kathmandu to demand an immediate lifting of the blockade.
“Stop the blockade. Education is our right,” chanted the students.
Some held banners as they held hands in a human chain organised by various groups representing schools in Kathmandu.
For
weeks, members of the Madhesi ethnic community protesting Nepal’s new
Constitution have blocked the main southern border point with India,
preventing fuel and other essential items from entering the country.
Nepal is facing acute shortages of fuel,
cooking gas, medicines and other supplies because of a two-month long
blockade of the main border crossings with India by people demanding
greater representation in the Himalayan nation’s new constitution.
Source :-The Hindu,28-Nov-2015
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