According to the police, the clash broke out after the protestors tried to break the restricted area
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Mohi farmers clashed with the police while they were marching towards Parliament House New Baneshwar to convey to the MPs their demand to get Lalpurja. In Kathmandu, Maitighar, a month has passed since the sit-in, the farmers on Sunday marched towards the parliament building carrying agricultural tools in their original costumes, saying that their demands had not been heard. A clash broke out after the police stopped them at Babarmahal.
Swargadwari Guthipidit Mohi Kisan Sangharsh Samiti reported that the police brutally beat up the farmers who were marching peacefully. According to the committee, 29 farmers were injured due to police baton charge. Some of the injured were taken to Veer Hospital for treatment, the committee said. The casually injured rejoined the protest at Maitighar. Khusiram Choudhary, who was raising slogans at Maitighar, said, 'We will not run away from the movement.'
According to the committee, police arrested Sher Bahadur Chaudhary, Praveen Dahit Chaudhary, Lal Bahadur Chaudhary, Balkrishna Chaudhary, Bharatlal Chaudhary, Ramesh Chaudhary, Dhaniram Chaudhary, Vimali Chaudhary, Sunita Chaudhary, Ramkumari Chaudhary, Pima Chaudhary and Bindu Kumal during the Babar Mahal clash. District Police Complex Information Officer Superintendent of Police (SP) Apilraj Bohra claimed that the clash broke out after the protestors tried to break the restricted area. According to Bohra, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ganga Paudel of Police Circle Singhdarbar was injured in the clash.
Vimala Choudhary's leg, a participant in the protest, is swollen due to beating by the police. "While taking away the placard I was carrying, the police hit me on the back and legs," she said. Vimala came to Kathmandu from Dang, Tulsipur-10 only on Sunday morning to support her farmer friends who are sitting on sit-in at Maitighar. Her husband has gone to Dubai to work. She said, "I left my children at home and got injured the day I came to Kathmandu." Even though their friends were arrested, the rest of the protestors who came back and settled in Maitighar are still hanging around their necks the certificate of Mohiani right to the land that was plowed by their ancestors. There are about 16,000 farmers belonging to 3,005 families in 12 mauzas (villages) of Dang. He is cultivating 1,500 bighas of land under Guthi. The ownership of the land is in the name of Swargadwari Guthi. Farmers have been protesting for years that they should own the cultivated land. The farmer has Mohiani parts but that too was canceled by the joint bench of the Supreme Court on 14th Chait 2062.
The Supreme Court had given a mandate that 'Swargadwari Guthi is a private Guthi of a special nature, so that the land of the Ashram cannot be fragmented'. Since then, farmers have been protesting with evidence of Mohi Purja. Their demand is that there should be a legal arrangement for raitani in the name of Mohi, the land that is being cultivated by the farmers, the rights of the evicted Mohi of Guthi land of a special nature should be restored and the farmers should arrange for the raitani to be paid through Tiro Ward.
The farmers who were plowing the land under Swargadwari Guthi had been holding a district-centered protest since 2045. Farmers also protested in Dang to create more pressure on the government. After protesting for a month from February 7, 2080, the government reached an agreement with them. The victims have been protesting at Maitighar in Kathmandu since January 20, saying that the agreement has not been implemented. Due to the disorderly stay in Kathmandu, the farmers have become weak, physically weak and sick.
The agitating farmers were earlier living in Gaushala Dharamshala. When Dharamshala asked them to move elsewhere on the eve of Shivratri, they stayed under the open sky, now they are back at Gaushala again. "We cook food ourselves and eat it, but it is difficult for women in Kathmandu," said Asha Kumari Chaudhary of Dang, who participated in the protest, "40, 50 people have to sleep in one room." More than 100 farmers are participating in the current protest. They came from Dang carrying rice and dal to eat and are determined not to return until their demand is met. Khusiram Choudhary (65) says, "We will not leave Maitighar until the government gives Lalpurja."
