Normal life has been affected in Nepal as a Maoist faction on Monday imposed a nationwide strike to pressurise the government to ensure food security and lower the prices of essential goods, with police arresting more than 100 people for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close.
The strike was called by the Netra Bikram Chand led CPN (Maoist). Most of the educational institutions remained closed in Kathmandu and shops remained partially closed. A lot of the public vehicles including taxis were off course.
Maoist cadres vandalised vehicles in some other part of the country. The law arrested at least 100 cadres belonging to the CPN-Maoist (Chanda), a reduced faction of Maoist party, who were involved in vandalising shops and vehicles to enforce the shut down, the cops said.
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