Protesting demonstrators have vandalized the office of Saptakoshi municipality after a security agency stopped their attempts to padlock the office.
Issuing a press release on Sunday, Saptakoshi Mayor Uttam Gautam shared that the protestors vandalized office properties, including vehicles, computers, and a digital notice board.
The municipality condemned the incident of vandalizing the office and physically hurting people's representatives, employees, and security personnel.
It may be noted that the office was padlocked earlier on Friday on the backing of Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center), Janata Samajwadi Party & CPN (Unified Socialist), and a clash ensued when the protesters attempted to lock up the office on Sunday again.
The protesters had padlocked the office putting forth several demands, including disclosure of COVID spending and internal audit details, bidding process of the construction of National Secondary School Fattepur building, English medium class operation spending, and implementation of plans at all 11 wards in the municipality.
The struggle committee commented that the municipality has invited conflict by unilaterally removing the padlock without addressing the demands.
Mayor Gautam said the padlock was removed in the presence of civil society representatives and police administration when the protesting side did not come to the negotiation table despite approaching them several times.
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