Rautahat. Home Minister Sudhan Gurung is holding the third round of talks today (Thursday) with farmers, workers and victims who have been agitating against meter interest and fraud.
The meeting to be held at 12 noon at the meeting hall of the Municipal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Nijgadh of Bara has been taken as ‘
decisive’ by both sides.
The first and second rounds of talks, which lasted for about five hours each on Tuesday and Wednesday, ended inconclusively.
Peasants-Workers Movement, Nepal had started a ‘Foot March’ (Nyay Yatra) from the historic Tirhutiya Gachhi in Janakpur, Dhanusha on July 25.
Home Minister Gurung himself has arrived in Nijgadh of Bara to listen to the grievances of the victims who have been searching for justice without caring about the scorching sun and rain.
The agitators have submitted a six-point demand to the Home Administration with a clear blueprint to resolve their problems.
They have put forth a six-point demand before the Home Minister to scrap fake documents, formulate a powerful special act against meter interest, form a special tribunal, investigate the property of moneylenders and moneylenders, return the victim’s property and ensure fair financial transactions. The technical and legal complexities of the demands were discussed in detail in the last two days of talks. The representatives of the agitators have taken a stand that they will not stop the agitation until the state makes concrete and implementable commitments, while the government has said that homework is being done to resolve the problem in a lawful manner. The third round of negotiations, which begin at 12 noon today, will determine how to bring this long and arduous struggle of the Meter Interest victims to a logical conclusion.
Thousands of victims across the country are now watching this negotiation in Nijgadh with great interest.
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