Hundreds of female and male protesters are crammed into a single hall.
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It is the time for sowing. Now is the time to be busy with sowing in your own fields. Those who do not have fields also feel the rush of the fair. But, leaving all that behind, the meter-bill victims have now become agitators.
They have been staying in Nijgadh for the past four days, forgetting about sowing. They have been here since last Monday. They have been staying in Nijgadh for a week, leaving their homes and families behind. On the one hand, they are worried about the rush of farming and on the other hand, whether the government will fulfill their demands or not. Some are agitated despite being touched by the rush of farming. Some agitators have returned home in the rush of paddy sowing.
Nearly 200 agitators are currently staying in Nijgadh. They have been staying in Nijgadh, the fifth district of Bara, for four days after walking through 4 of the 8 districts of Madhesh Province since Asad 25. Their destination was to reach Kathmandu on foot and tell the government about their problems. But Home Minister Sudhan Gurung left Singha Durbar, the administrative center of the capital Kathmandu, and secretly arrived in Nijgadh on Tuesday. That is why the protesters have been spending the night and day huddled in the assembly hall of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nijgadh since last Monday night. 
There are 3 small toilets there. There is a small zinc-roofed trust, where they are cooking and eating. There is electricity and fans. Hundreds of male and female protesters have spent the night and day sleeping on the floor using it. All the protesters are sitting in a single hall. They have been cooking and eating collectively. They have been shouting slogans against the government. They spent about 10 hours with them for two days and narrated their pain to Home Minister Gurung.
Even though a 6-member team including the chairman of the agitation committee, Awadhesh Kuswah, who accompanied Minister Gurung to hold talks with the government, went to Kathmandu, Nijgadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Dipendra Shrestha said that some of the victims are still staying here in the hope that the government will address their 6-point demands. According to him, they had stayed here during the march pass earlier.
‘We have left agriculture and are living in poverty,’ said Bhairo Ram of Pipradhi, Bara Devtal Rural Municipality-4, ‘We have been enduring great difficulties in living, eating, and doing our daily chores. We are tired of protesting again and again. This time, we hope that our demands will be met through talks with the government.’ Tired of repeatedly protesting, he said, ‘I am more worried about rice planting than happy.’ Last year, the victims also sat in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry during the foot march. The meter-billing victims have been protesting demanding the cancellation of fake documents, the creation of a powerful special law against meter-billing, the formation of an authority against meter-billing, an investigation into the assets of usurers, the return of the victims’ assets, and ensuring fair economic transactions.
