The police were firing from inside. I ran for dear life to the corner of the gate where reporters in yellow press jackets were swarming.
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Maitighar, the center of the movement, was filled with protesters before 9 am on Monday. At other times, gen-jis parked their scooters and bikes on the edge of the busy road and joined the chanting crowd. Loud slogans were being raised against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, ministers and former Prime Minister.
Most of them were in college dress. Most of them were carrying bookbags. Crowds of protesters were shouting slogans. There was no specific leader and banner at the forefront like previous movements. Public and private transport was mostly at a standstill. Meanwhile, some youths were shouting and riding dirt bikes, splashing the crowd. Being protestors, there was no stopping them from kicking bikes like that.
It was difficult even to walk in the crowd. The crowd was moving eastwards from Maitighar to New Baneshwar. Even bikes were not able to cross the road before. He asked for a lift on one of the bikes and went live through Kantipur's ticket page.
The sun was hot. But the dissatisfaction of the protestors was even louder than that. We are in a movement. Our future is not for sale. Say no to corruption', they chanted in unison. Not only the street atmosphere from Maitighar to Naya Baneshwar, but also the air was mixed with anger and protest. The protesters slowly moved towards New Baneshwar, the New Baneshwar restricted area.
A security cordon of the Nepal Police and a water fountain vehicle to control the crowd were placed near the Everest Hotel to control the riots. Around 11:50 a.m., protesters broke the cordon of the truck. Police fired water cannons and batons. Some of the protestors fell down in a pool of blood. It was the Gen-jis who came to their rescue. The crowd had stopped.
New Baneshwar, Sankhamool Road, Old Baneshwar, Meenbhavan area were completely under the control of the protesters. Protesters carrying placards and national flags occupied the island used by the traffic police of New Baneshwar for duty. Around 12 noon, a group of protesters reached the south gate of the Parliament building. The protesters were throwing bricks, stones and blocks placed on the road and were hitting the police inside. Police fired tear gas and aerial fire to prevent the protesters from entering. Protesters outside the gate were breaking steel railings, glass, chairs. They didn't stop there. The green iron bars on top of the wall started to break and make holes in the wall.
A group of protesters broke through the security cordon and entered. The police stood in front of the fountain to stop them. Protesters outside the gate started vandalizing police sentries and other things. Then the police started shooting. The protestors were not backing down even as their comrades collapsed in the streets after being shot. Some were seen approaching the policemen with chest beating. Some were climbing over the wall and entering inside. He was being detained by the police. At that time some protestors climbed the police sentry post at the corner of New Baneshwar. From there they started throwing stones inside.
Monday's scene reminded me of reporting from this area during the 061/62 agitation. However, there was no shooting like now. During Monday's demonstration, Kalila youths were shot in the head and chest. There was no account of how many tear gas cells were hit. While watching
, one of the agitators was shot in the neck. His pants burned. He dropped the mobile phone in his pocket. Perhaps being mobile, Dhan did not touch her body. He collapsed on the road. After some time he asked to take out the SIM from the mobile phone. I was just going to remove the SIM from the mobile phone. Shots fired again. At that time, the protestors set fire to the ambulance of the armed police. The shooting continued. A protester had collapsed in front of the gate. There was blood everywhere. I thought it was a risk to stay there.
The police were firing from inside. I ran for dear life to the corner of the gate where reporters in yellow press jackets were swarming. I was live on Tiktok. After hearing the live reporting, photojournalist Varsha Shah said, 'Don't speak, the police are shooting. "Shut up," she said. Then I fell silent. I was trying to avoid the stones that the protestors were throwing at the police. I could not stay there as my eyes started burning with tear gas. I slowly ran towards the petrol pump across from the main gate and went to a corner and hid. But his eyes were on the gate.
Looking back, there were other students who came to the movement. The activities of the police and the protestors were clearly visible from here. The police were firing. A few minutes later, a protester was shot in the leg and fell. He started spluttering. Others shouted, Ambulance, ambulance. The windows of half a dozen ambulances were broken. So there was no ambulance.
The injured were taken to a nearby civil hospital. The doctor was referring to other hospitals in the city according to the nature of the wound after normal treatment. As there was no space in the emergency, some of them were being dressed outside. The security personnel of the hospital were struggling to manage the crowd. Doctors and other health workers were asking people who were going to see patients not to interrupt the treatment by folding their hands or talking loudly to someone.
The crowd was the same till evening. The protestors also tried to enter the office of the Transport Management Department nearby. But the police stopped it. But there were many pipes placed on the roadside by the protestors who brought them to the road and burnt them.
As the administration decided to impose a curfew, an army truck arrived in the evening. Protesters joined hands and stopped the truck in front of Everest Hotel. No one was allowed to throw stones. At that place, a car carrying a human rights activist was set on fire. Around five o'clock, the police dispersed the protestors. Although the police did not use much force, the protestors left the road. In the evening, the protestors who set arson and vandalized Naya Baneshwar were picking up garbage including water bottles in Maitighar area.
