Birendranagar, the present capital of Karnali Province, was the headquarters of the Midwestern Development Region at that time. On the eve of the drafting of a new constitution by the Constituent Assembly, after the 10 districts of Karnali, Bheri and Rapti of the former Midwest were merged into the Far West, the fire of discontent in this region was ignited. Four people were martyred in the firing during the protest in Surkhet and Jumla.

After the protest which lasted for 13 days took a violent form, the high-level mechanism of the political parties formed in Kathmandu to reach agreement on the contents of the constitution, agreed to form a separate province of the former 10 districts of the Midwest. Then Karnali Pradesh was born. Due to the

movement, the state establishment day is celebrated on August 4 in Karnali. The province acquisition movement that started on July 23, 2072 ended on August 4. During the agitation, three people lost their lives in Surkhet and one in Jumla. In memory of this, Martyr's Day and State Establishment Day have been started in Karnali.

Yam Bahadur BC of Surkhet Birendranagar, Tikaram Gautam, Gopalsingh Rajwar and Hari Bahadur Kunwar of Jumla were shot dead by the police. Nearly 100 people were injured during the protest. The government had given Rs 10/10 lakh to the families of the four people who died due to gunshots.

The families of the martyrs are complaining that the provincial government has not given employment to the descendants of the martyrs' families who lost their lives in the acquisition of the state. What did Karnali get when the movement for getting the state was about to reach a decade? What did the Shahid family get? Amrut Gautam, the son of martyr Tikaram, said, "With the death of my father, there has been a lot of grief in the family, and my mother also died." Now we are just brothers.'

Tikaram died on July 25, 2072 at the age of 49. Amrit says, "Those who have reached the government don't speak, they don't know us, it is a province that we have shed blood and fought for, but now our situation is miserable." According to him, the government has not given anything other than 24 thousand in the name of scholarship. Amrit is currently teaching as a special teacher at Siddhabahira School in Birendranagar.

_{Four state martyrs placed in different ministries of Karnali state.}

28-year-old Yam Bahadur BC of Birendranagar-7 also lost his life in the movement. His plan to fulfill his parents' dream by joining the government service was taken away by the provincial movement. Bhagwati, the sister of Shaheed Yam Bahadur, said that the state government has not given anything but assurance to the families of those who lost their lives in the agitation. Nine years after the death of my brother, the Karnali government has fulfilled only one demand of the martyr. That is, to keep the photos of the four martyrs in the ministries and subordinate offices of the province,' she said, 'My parents are very upset when they lose their old age charioteer .

Yam Bahadur's mother Bali Budha said that nothing was as expensive as that movement for her. "The eldest son of the house, he said he would get a government job, but his dream was shattered on the street," she said. Bhagwati says that they have neglected to write the names of the martyrs in the Shaheed Park built by the state government and to make a memorial column for them.

Gopalsingh Rajwar raised a family of five by running a small clothes sewing shop in Surkhet's Birendra Nagar. In opposition to the government's decision to merge Surkhet with Sudurpaschim, he also joined the province acquisition movement along with his neighbors. As the protest escalated, the police fired teargas . His son Deepak Rajwar says that Gopalsingh, who fell on the road after being hit by tear gas, was also beaten by the police with the barrel of a gun.

'Not only did my father die, but our happiness was taken away . The shop that earns a living was also destroyed by fire. The state government has not fulfilled any of its commitments to us," he says, "even though the state has gained a name, we have to worry about what to eat tomorrow. The government gave 10 lakhs to pay the death penalty. After the death of my father, we have neither skills nor education.'' He is saddened that the state government is killing weeds in honoring the Martyr's Day once a year.

Deepak says that instead of sitting at home and listening to the assurances of the government, he decided to go to Kalapahad to feed his family, 'How many people live on false assurances, every time the government changes, they call the ministry and say that we are here today because of the investment of your relatives, but they don't implement it.'  He complains that although various assurances were given to build a martyr's square in memory of the 4 people who lost their lives in the

movement, providing employment to the family members of the martyrs, they did not implement it . The members of the family say that when the provincial government invites them to the program and treats them as a martyr family, they feel more pain. They say that even if the martyr's family is given employment and higher education according to their qualifications, the martyr's sacrifice will be appreciated.

Hari Bahadur Kunwar of Jumla died in Kathmandu on August 6th during treatment. Kunwar, who was involved in an autonomous movement demanding that 5 districts of former Karnali should be named as Karnali Province, was shot dead in front of the Jumla district administration and died during treatment. At the tender age of 21 years, Hari Bahadur, who joined the movement, came down to Jumla Bazar from his village to study. "After the agitation for getting a state in Sadarmukam got heated, I did not know when the shots were fired," Hari Bahadur's brother Raj Bahadur Kunwar says. For a long time we lied to mother that we are treating my brother . It was very difficult to tell the news of his death to his mother.'