Swami Ramdev In Kathmandu

Ramdev, the very famous Yoga guru is arriving to Kathmandu today. He will be teaching yoga to thousands of people at Tudhikhel from Saturday.

Thousands of his followers and admirers spread across the country have started to come to the capital city to attend his Yoga camp.

According to the organizers, more than 12,500 tickets have already been sold for the Yoga camp that would go on till Thursday. The number of people coming with government or local authority’s recommendation letter for free passes to the camp is equally remarkable. The organizers said that two thousand free passes have been distributed to poor, the sick and disabled.

About 700 policemen would provide security during the 6-day Yoga camp.
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is scheduled to inaugurate the Yoga camp at Tudhikhel on Saturday.

Unstable Nepal

Violence in Kapilvastu and neighboring Rupandehi districts of Nepal saw no sign of receding, with three more killed on Monday.

An unidentified group or groups murdered Dhan Bahadur Thapa of Khururiya VDC, Hiramani Kharel of Ganeshpur and an unidentified person even as the curfew order remained intact.

The situation grew tense after an unidentified group shot dead Mohid Khan, former chairman of an anti-Maoist group in Kapilvastu who was also district vice-chairman of the Loktantrik Madheshi Mukti Morcha, on Sunday morning.

Quite a few mobs, some armed, have been attacking ordinary people and vandalizing and torching houses and shops at Chandrauta, Birpur, Krishnanagar, district headquarters Taulihawa, Ganeshnagar, Lalpur, Bishanpur and many other places.

The locals, whose houses and property were damaged by berserk groups, resorted to retaliation, even as the local administration continued the curfew Monday. They vandalized many houses, the Lumbini Cotton Industry and petrol pumps at Chandrauta.

Traffic Police Office at Chandrauta said that 85 vehicles were torched in the arson, including a considerable number of private vehicles.

Although separate reinforcements of the Nepal Police and Armed Police Force have been deployed in the affected areas and the curfew is still in place, the situation is yet to be brought under control.

Locals at Motipur, Shivapur and Gorusinghe said that irate people set ablaze many houses in those localities Monday. Pahade people and their houses have been deliberately targeted, they said.

Vehicles that ply along the East-West Highway have been stranded at Gorusinghe. Candidates for Bachelor level examinations could not sit for the annual test due to the curfew. Similarly, Krishnanagar transit point has also been closed.

Curfew renewed in Butwal

Although the local administration in Butwal, Rupandehi district lifted the night-long curfew Monday morning, it renewed the prohibitory order from evening. Krishna Prasad Nepal, chief of the Area Administration Office in Butwal, informed that the curfew was re-imposed to avert any backlash against the fresh bout of violence in neighboring Kapilvastu district. A goodwill rally was taken out in Butwal Monday urging people to exercise restraint and to maintain communal harmony.

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