Kathmandu, 20 June: Guthiyars (trustees) of the public Guthis (trusts) staged a massive demonstration at Maitighar Mandala on Wednesday demanding that the Guthi bill be scrapped.Thousands of people especially from the Newar community assembled in protest of the proposed Guthi bill.
All the print media of today have covered this news with pictures. The demonstrators chanted slogans to preserve the Guthis. Amid widespread protests, the government on Tuesday decided to withdraw the controversial Guthi bill from the National Assembly.The mass protest was possibly the largest apolitical one since 2006 People’s Movement.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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