According to media reports, clashes erupted after NLM cadres led by Madhesh-based-leader and former Nepal Deputy PM Rajendra Mahato, organised a march in Kathmandu, demanding recognition of states on the basis of ethnicity.
Amid the unlikely Centre-Left alliance between Prachanda and Sher Bahadur Deuba, which has helped India and the US edge out China, a new political twist is the rising clamour for restoration of monarchy and a Hindu state. But Deuba is caught between India and the US, and their contrasting positions on secularism
Youth Force has announced it will challenge another protest group that will be led by Durga Prasai, a former Maoist cadre turned UML central committee member. He now coordinates a nationwide movement against corruption.