By NNN-PTI,
Kathmandu : Indefinite curfew was clamped in an eastern Nepal town today, after some two dozen people were injured in police firing, following a violent clash between youth activists of country’s two main political parties.
The police opened fire to control the situation as the activists of CPN-Maoist affiliated Young Communist League and the Youth Force of CPN-UML clashed over the issue of fund raising in Dhankuta town, police said.
Nearly two dozen activists from both of the groups injured during the incident, the police said.
The administration imposed indefinite curfew in the municipality area when the situation turned uncontrollable.
The CPN-UML’s Youth Force accused the members of Maoists’ Young Communist League of preventing them from raising funds for their organisation.
“The Maoists were raising donation from vehicles plying the Koshi highway, but they did not allow us to raise the fund which resulted in fighting,” said Govinda Bhattarai, office secretary of the Youth Force.
The fighting came at a time when the CPN-UML leaders were about to join the Maoist led government after the latter agreed to provide second rank to CPN-UML in the cabinet.