The organization of farmers and laborers who are struggling against metered use across the country has submitted a memorandum to the federal government through the chief district officer along with a one-hour dharna at the district administration office.
Lakshmi Ghimire, the provincial president of the Farmers' Labor Movement against Meter Interest, said that after the large declaration meeting held in Janakpurdham, the capital of Madhesh Province, on January 14, the Farmers' Workers Movement, Nepal will conduct a public awareness campaign against economic exploitation across the country.
In the same vein, the protestors have surrounded the district court under the 44-day campaign, burying the flag on the victim's land and making sure that they are free, filing mass complaints at the district police office, and submitting memorandums to the chief district officers of various districts.
Memorandum was submitted to district administration offices across the country on Sunday. The memorandum was also handed over to the chief district officer of Morang, Indradev Yadav. Before that, the meter badge victims sat in front of the district administration office for an hour.
Province Secretary Vimala Gajmer said that a peaceful dharna was held in the district administration offices across the country to pressurize the implementation of the agreement reached with the government. The protestors claim that the economic inequality in the country has reached an extreme level, the main sources of production are concentrated in the hands of a limited class and the working class is under constant exploitation. Morang District President Rabindra Gachchdar said that the poor class has been deprived of access to banking due to the arbitrary policy of financial institutions and has been forced to fall into the network of meter baggers.
According to the leaders of the farmers' labor movement, the economic condition of common citizens is becoming miserable day by day as the state provides special benefits to big industrialists and business houses. People in rural areas have become victims of financial exploitation due to lack of financial literacy.
The protestors have been saying that they have been continuously fighting against the meter badge for the past four years. They have put forward a major demand to stop the property auction process related to meterbaj for the time being, to declare fake documents illegal and to compensate the victims . In addition, they also demand that the pending cases related to meter badges should be postponed and an effective law should be made. The leaders of the
movement have warned that if the government oppresses the victims according to the interests of moneylenders and broker capitalists, they will launch a stronger movement. "Now we cannot tolerate the oppression of the state and the exploitation of the meter-baggers", said the state president Ghimire, "If the demand is not met, we will start a nationwide struggle."
