The incident of cadres of the United People's Front (Bhattrai group) conducting guerrilla training in the western districts of Rolpa and Rukum, beating up opponents, and collecting weapons was being made public. For the first time, evidence of the aforementioned incident was found in the western district in Asoj 2052. Since then, the security agencies had assumed that preparations for a long-term 'people's war' were underway.

After the police's guess was correct, a special police team launched a special operation in Rolpa and Rukum. But the general public had not heard of the term 'Maoist People's War'. On the surface, only the Janamorcha Nepal Party was visible.

But on February 2, 2052, a group of masked men vandalized police posts in Rolpa, Rukum, Gorkha and Sindhuli, shouting 'Long live Maoism'. There was a shootout in Rolpa. The attackers had shouted the slogan 'Long live Maoism'.

There was a shootout between the police and those who had come to loot the Holeri police post in Sakhi VDC of Rolpa for one and a half hours at night. The then Chief District Officer of Rolpa, Govinda Khanal, had informed that the police had fired 10 rounds. The attackers had asked for police weapons. When they refused to give them weapons, they were shot.

The police had fired through a hole in the post building. The bullets fired by the attackers hit the wall of the post building. The masked men had also cut the telephone line at the National Commercial Bank. A temple near the post was set on fire. They had burned the documents in the post and taken away the fuse wire and gelatin. There were 6 policemen at the post. 20 policemen were sent from Nepalgunj after the attack.

That same night, a group of about 250 people looted the police post and the shop of VDC Chairman Lokendra Batala in Athabiskot VDC of Rukum. The then Chief District Officer of Rukum, Bishnu Prasad Aryal, had informed that the shop's goods were thrown into a nearby river. The police post chairman was staying in Batala's house on rent. Locals had said that the slogan 'Maoism Zindabad' was raised there too.

Initially, they demanded weapons and when they were not given them, they vandalized the post. They also took away gelatin kept for road construction. Additional police were sent to the scene. Pushkarnath Yogi, the then Superintendent of Police of Rukum, informed that residents of Ghyargaun of Jajarkot Bhagwati VDC were also involved in the incident.

Batala, the chairman of Aathbiskot, said that the workers of the United Jan Morcha Nepal had looted the post. He had earlier also said that Congress workers Nainsingh Nepali, Ganesh Shah, and Lal Bahadur KC had been killed. He said that the morale of the attackers had increased because the administration did nothing about their murders.

During the attack, a mob of about three hundred unknown people looted the Sindhuligarhi post in Sindhuli district. They tied up three policemen and left them there while burning documents. The post was in the forest. Similarly, the office of the Small Farmers Development Project in Chyangli, Gorkha was burnt down. Purna Kumari Kandel of Dhunwakot, Gorkha, and Sumitra Gurung and Kaushila Gurung, students studying at Gorkha Campus, were arrested on charges of involvement in the incident.