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MADHESI nationalists resumed their blockade of southern Nepal yesterday after three of the militants were shot dead by police when they attacked a Communist Party rally.
The United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) called a general strike across the country’s southern plains region, closing markets, schools and transport.
Their supporters blockaded main roads and towns in an echo of the 2015-16 border sit-in that caused acute food, fuel and medicine shortages in the wake of the devastating May 2015 earthquake.
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
