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Updated On: 22 February, 2010 01:50 PM IST | | Agencies
Nepal's only pro-monarchist group on Monday enforced a near complete shutdown in the Kathmandu valley to demand a referendum on issues like restoration of the monarchy and timely drafting of the Constitution.
Nepal's only pro-monarchist group on Monday enforced a near complete shutdown in the Kathmandu valley to demand a referendum on issues like restoration of the monarchy and timely drafting of the Constitution.
Vehicles were off the road, schools and colleges remained closed and main markets shut down as Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal had called for a general strike in three districts of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur. However, shops in the interior parts of the city were open despite the strike which was largely peaceful except for some sporadic incidents of violence.
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