His remarks have come at a time when UDMF has warned of fresh round of protests from next week if their demands are not addressed by the government immediately.Speaking at Reporter's Club on Wednesday, Mahato said that there would be no blockade along Nepal-India border during the protests that UDMF has warned to resume from next week. "As the blockade did not yield any outcome but only inflicted hardships to the general public, we are not going to organize any kind of blockade in the name of protests from now onward," said Mahato, who is also the president of Sadbhavana Party.
He said that the agitating UDMF would not do anything as such from now onward that would unleash hardship on the general public. "Our protests will now be Singha Durbar centric. Let me clarify that our protests is not against any community but it is to attain rights of the Madhesi people."
He said that the nature of the next round of protests would be of a kind that would mount maximum pressure on the government without affecting the general public.
"We will picket Singha Durbar and stage protests unless the new constitution is amended to include our demands," he said, adding, such protests will also be organized in various parts of the country.
Mahato also criticized Prime Minister KP Oli's address to the nation on the eve of the New Year saying that PM Oli would neither provide grant amount to the quake victims nor address the demands of the agitating Madhesi parties.
He even said that there was no possibility of any dialogue between the agitating parties and the government as the government showed no interest to sit for talks even though the UDMF gave ultimatum for talks.
"Calling us for dialogue by the prime minister is nothing more than a tactic to foil our next round of protests," he said.
He criticized the government for not holding dialogues with the UDMF ever after two months of calling off the protests.
Mahato said that the UDMF would announce a massive protest program for the next round of protests by holding discussion with the political parties that are fighting for ethnic-based identity and other forces.
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