There is rumors that a lady Nepalese Constituent Assembly member was drinking alcohol inside the Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting. See picture of news article that were publish in Nepali Newspaper today. Gita wagle who is a member of Nepali Congress.
Outside of Constituent Assembly many people gathered in road and start running class in the middle of road. This is another new way to protest against banda. A general strike called by UCPN (Maoist)-led 30 party alliance and CPN-Maoist has affected normal life across the country. Private and public tranportation were not seen on the street. Normal life was affected in Tarai, western, mid-western and far-western districts as transport was disrupted while marketplaces and educational institutions remained closed in most of the place. In Jhapa, strike organisers clashed with businesspersons at Chandragadhi. According to Partha Mandal, a local journalist, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (Loktantrik) activist Ranjit Kumar Sinha was injured in the incident. The alliance enforced the strike demanding the constitution be drafted on consensus and not by following the CA procedures. They have also demanded single-identity-based federalism in the constitution.
