Dhangadhi, Nepal: Dhangadhi, the capital city of the province number 7, remains tense on Thursday as well after local staged protest against of the suggestions made for permanent capital and name of the province.
As the special recommendation committee led by lawmaker Tara Lama Tamang had submitted a report to the state assembly suggesting that the permanent province capital be located in Teghari of Godavari Municipality and that the province be named ‘Sudurpaschim,’ the local have been protesting the suggestion.
The locals have a demand that existing temporary capital of the province should be fixed as the permanent capital arguing that newly suggested Godavari lacks necessary infrastructures.
Hundreds of thousand locals have taken to the streets since the early morning chanting slogans against the province government. All the market area, factories, transportation, and educational institutions have remained closed due to the strike.
The suggestion to relocate the provincial capital is not only protested from the opposition parties and the common local people but also from the supporters of the government head Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
