JHAPA: Cadres of the ruling CPN-UML citing the party's apathy in the suicide of veteran cadre Digendra Rajbanshi staged demonstrations in Jhapa district on Sunday.
Hundreds of relatives and well wishers of the deceased Rajbanshi and UML activists chanted slogans against the party and staged demonstrations in Charali section of the East-West highway since morning. Vehicles plying on the highway have been stranded following the protest.
The agitators accused the party of neglecting Rajbanshi who was actively involved in the party for the past 37 years. Party negligence was the major cause of his suicide, the agitators claimed. The deceased's body has been taken to his residence in Duwagadi-5.
Rajbanshi, 65 had committed suicide by hanging himself from a plum tree in the premises of the UML headquarters at Balkhu, Kathmandu on Saturday morning.
He was staying in the party headquarters in the hope of finding a job for his son Shambhu, 25 for the past two months. He met senior leaders of the party and ministers as well but to no avail. He was disappointed with their responses and ultimately killed himself, a family source said.
He was a colleague of KP Sharma Oli, Radha Krishna Mainali, Biren Rajbanshi, CP Mainali and Mohan Chandra Adhikari among others during the Peasants' Uprising in Jhapa during 1970s and was sentenced to six years imprisonment in Birgunj and Kathmandu on the charge of sedition.
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