By IRNA,
New Delhi : As the indefinite strike called by the Maoists entered third day Tuesday, diarrhea and dysentery have caught hundreds of agitating former rebels.
Life has been crippled by the general strike enforced by batton-wielding cadres of ultra left party with markets and most of the factories closed, schools and colleges shut down and vehicles were kept off the streets in the capital and elsewhere across the country.
The Maoists, who have around 35 per cent of the seats in parliament, want the government to step down, followed by the formation of a new coalition government led by them to rescue the peace process and draft a new constitution, PTI reported.
Maoists’ deputy chairman Baburam Bhattarai has vowed that the strike would continue until Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned.