Just months after school buses of Delhi Public Higher Secondary School of Dharan were attacked by students aligned to the Mohan Baidhya-led CPN-Maoist, buses of the same school were targeted today by the student wing of the largest ruling party, the Unified CPN-Maoist.
A group of 12 motorbike-borne ANNISU-R cadres waylaid a bus belonging to the school at Jimi Chowk in Dharan before vandalising it at about 6 am when it was on its way to pick students. The vandals smashed all the windows of the bus.
Principal Sagar Anupam alleged that the attack was spurred by the school name. “As the school was set up with the permission of the Nepali government to provide quality education to the children of the doctors, nurses and staffers serving at the BP Koirala Institute of Health and Sciences, vandalism by a student union aligned to the ruling party is unfortunate,” said Anupam, demanding a conducive environment to run the school. “The ANNISU-R act has only
terrorised the students,” he added.
ANNISU-R central member CP Bajgain tried to defend the rampage, arguing that the attack was a symbolic form of protest after the school denied members of the organisation a meeting with the principal when they went to school yesterday. “As the school has a foreign name, we had gone to meet the principal,” he told THT. Dharan Area Police Office DSP Rajendra Bista said police were on a lookout for the vandals.
On July 23, activists of the CPN-Maoist-aligned ANNISU (Revolutionary) had torched and vandalised buses belonging to the same school while they were ferrying students from Biratnagar, along the Koshi Highway in Dharan. Though the police had detained the organisation central member Prahlad Raut, he was released after six hours without any action.
Dharan Area Police Office chief, Inspector Rajendra Bista, had then claimed that since it was a political issue, it should be resolved at the central level. “The school did not file any FIR identifying anyone in connection with the incident, making it difficult to take action,” he said.
Following today’s incident the police had detained some of the CPN-M-aligned ANNISU-R cadres for interrogation. But they were released after it dawned upon the police that the incident was the handiwork of the UCPN-M-aligned student union.
Sunsari CDO Laxman Thapa said, “I’ll take action after getting details,” he said. He kept mum when asked why the administration had freed the CPN-M-aligned students involved in the July vandalism. Locals said police laxity of letting the guilty scot free had boosted the morale of the vandals.
A group of 12 motorbike-borne ANNISU-R cadres waylaid a bus belonging to the school at Jimi Chowk in Dharan before vandalising it at about 6 am when it was on its way to pick students. The vandals smashed all the windows of the bus.
Principal Sagar Anupam alleged that the attack was spurred by the school name. “As the school was set up with the permission of the Nepali government to provide quality education to the children of the doctors, nurses and staffers serving at the BP Koirala Institute of Health and Sciences, vandalism by a student union aligned to the ruling party is unfortunate,” said Anupam, demanding a conducive environment to run the school. “The ANNISU-R act has only
ANNISU-R central member CP Bajgain tried to defend the rampage, arguing that the attack was a symbolic form of protest after the school denied members of the organisation a meeting with the principal when they went to school yesterday. “As the school has a foreign name, we had gone to meet the principal,” he told THT. Dharan Area Police Office DSP Rajendra Bista said police were on a lookout for the vandals.
On July 23, activists of the CPN-Maoist-aligned ANNISU (Revolutionary) had torched and vandalised buses belonging to the same school while they were ferrying students from Biratnagar, along the Koshi Highway in Dharan. Though the police had detained the organisation central member Prahlad Raut, he was released after six hours without any action.
Dharan Area Police Office chief, Inspector Rajendra Bista, had then claimed that since it was a political issue, it should be resolved at the central level. “The school did not file any FIR identifying anyone in connection with the incident, making it difficult to take action,” he said.
Following today’s incident the police had detained some of the CPN-M-aligned ANNISU-R cadres for interrogation. But they were released after it dawned upon the police that the incident was the handiwork of the UCPN-M-aligned student union.
Sunsari CDO Laxman Thapa said, “I’ll take action after getting details,” he said. He kept mum when asked why the administration had freed the CPN-M-aligned students involved in the July vandalism. Locals said police laxity of letting the guilty scot free had boosted the morale of the vandals.
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