Maoists show Sood black flags

BHOJPUR, Feb 28: UCPN (Maoist) cadres on Monday greeted Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood with black flags during his visits to Bhojpur and Taplejung districts to inaugurate new schools and hospitals constructed with Indian government support.



The Maoist cadres also chanted slogans against Sood.



Maoist Bhojpur Secretary Dilkumar Rai said that their protest was targeted against Indian interference. [break]



“We protested against the Indian ambassador to create pressure against India to stop land encroachment, to treat Nepal as a good neighbor and to scrap unequal treaties,” said Rai. Maoist cadres showed the black flags in defiance of injunctions by the local administrations.



Sood reached Bhojpur to inaugurate a school building and hospital constructed with Indian assistance of Rs. 104.6 million under the Nepal-India Economic Cooperation Programme.



The new infrastructure will provide much needed classroom space to over 700 students, about half of whom are girls, reads a press release issued by the Indian embassy. Sood also inaugurated the foundation stones for a hospital building at Dingla of Bhojpur district and Shree Sinam Higher Secondary School in Taplejung.



Similarly, Sood inaugurated a school building for Shree Bidyodaya Higher Secondary School at Bhojpur Bazaar.

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