The Madhesi party called banda to “protest police action against its cadres” at Krishna Nagar on Saturday night. [break]
MJF chief whip and Constituent Assembly member Abhishek Pratap Sah said a team of police from Armed Police Force Base Camp, Krishna Nagar, “beat up his party’s cadres and misbehaved with them”. “We called the banda demanding action against the police personnel,” he said.
Following the strike, life in the district was affected. Vehicular movement, factories, educational institutions and markets remained closed.
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