Police Orders Student Group To Vacate Building

By Dinesh Wagle on March 31st, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal

In what appeared to be a carefully orchestrated event that will definitely worsen the already hostile relationship between the royal government and pro-democratic forces, police today went to the offices of All Nepal National Free Student Union (ANNFSU) at Rato Ghar (Red House) in Ratna Park, Kathmandu and ordered them to vacate the building immediately.

Talking to fellow blogger Tilak Pathak this evening, Bal Gopal Upadhaya, Central Committee Member of ANNFSU said: “A group of Armed Police Forces (APF) led by SSP Madhav Thapa came to our office this afternoon and told us to vacate two floors of the building by 4 PM. But we told them that we wouldn’t vacate the building and we stayed there till 6 PM. Then we locked the office as usual. Police team didn’t come back.” ANNFSU is the student wing of major opposition Communist Party of Nepal (UML).
The police team also ordered the shops on the ground floor of the building to vacate the room within a week.

Famous Rato Ghar is a state-owned building which managed by Rastriya Sabha Griha Samiti (RSGS) of Kathmandu Metropolitan city. All inhabitants of the building pay rent to RSGS. Immediately after the democracy was restored in 1990, ANNFSU captured the building and set up its offices in two of its four floors. Before, the same space was occupied by Rastrabadi Mandal, a pro-King and pro-Panchayati group.

It is learned that the APF wants to set up one of its own offices in the building.

“We have taken this step as an act of harassment and intimidation,” Upadhaya said in a telephone interview. “If the police use force to move us from there, we will respond appropriately. The state should be responsible for the consequences of such scenario.”

All the governments of pro-democracy era let the ANNFU to use the building as its office. When the CPN UML, mother party of ANNFSU, divided into two factions a few years ago, the group too broke up and the each of the two floors was taken by the two factions. When the party united the office became unified too.

7 Responses to “Police Orders Student Group To Vacate Building”

1. Roshu Says:
April 1st, 2005 at 11:00 am
hello!
This is just the process of democratic system started in Nepal ….don’t worry “shahi aayog” or “Nepal police” will order to vacant UML or congress office soon as dEIAMOCRATIC way….

2. Rajib Says:
April 1st, 2005 at 11:13 am
Pheri mandale haru janmaune hola ni ta…………Guys , stay there….that home is not the ancestral property of king……….In the name of Rule of law, king is very prone to establish anarchy in Nepal……Anarchy cozz we do not have faith on monarchy and it does not matter whether he will be king or wants to fade away like moths who come near fire………Prajatantra Amar Rahos !!

3. ???????? Says:
April 1st, 2005 at 1:51 pm
[Nepali font corrupt]

4. shanker Says:
April 1st, 2005 at 8:41 pm
i was just curious….if that building is govt property…are the student organizations paying any rent?

5. Rajib Says:
April 2nd, 2005 at 10:57 am
I think they are not paying……….My query is ,”Does king Pay the rent of Narayanhiti palace?” Tesko bau ko ta haina ni………

6. pita (pitajee@gmail.com) Says:
April 3rd, 2005 at 8:23 am
Rajibji,
You need to read Nepal’s history a bit. Remeber what Nepal’s every school kid knows by heart. P. N. Shah the Great’s dibyopadesh: “mero sano dukkhale arjya muluk hoina. Sabailai chetana bhaya!” What does this mean? It means Nepal was “earned” by P. N. Shah. King Gyanendra bequethed this property from his ancestors. Now turn to our own practices: when we bequathe property earned by our ancestors, we use it at our discretion. After all, don’t you spend and use whatever you have got (as your Ansha) from your parents? Don’t you use according to your fancies? So does King Gyanendra and his family. So, I was not surprised at all when King Gyanendra asked the government to buy luxuary cars for him when Nepal was financial and political turmoil. I was not surprised at all when Paras bought a fancy Bhatbhate (I can’t remember the brand name Haley Davidson or so). So it is quite logical and appropriate for King Gyanendra to appropriate and spend whatever he wants from the national coffer. Nepal is the property earned by his ancestor and bequathed by him. Why does he pay rent for something which is his property; pay to whom? Chetana Bhaya?? You got your answer?

7. Rajib Says:
April 3rd, 2005 at 10:18 am
Kaska lagi arjya ko muluk, teska chora chori lai moj garauna……….? k hami janata ko chahi kei value chhaina?…….kasko sahayog le arjeko muluk…….?k pande ra magar haru le help garera haina……?Ajja magar haru ko k aaswatha chha??……..Teska babu baje bajura lein aarjyo bhandai ma hami janata ko khun khan ta mildaina ni……….k amarsingh ra bala bhadra ani bhim sen le nala pani ra dethal ma naladeko bhaye…….tesko bau ko dukha le arjeko sampati nas hune thiyena……….raja kaska lagi janta ka lagi ki aafnai lagi……..?

Have you read Antigone written by Sophocles?The son of king(I forgot his name right now) says that if you(king) wants to enforce his words as a final law, he would be the great king in desert{HAEMON

A State for one man is no State at all.
CREON

The State is his who rules it, so ‘tis held.
HAEMON

As monarch of a desert thou wouldst shine.http://www.online-literature.com/sophocles/oedipus/3/}……..Have you read today’s times of India, what bhutanese king said,”Nation should come first than king.”“All this was possible because of the complete trust and faith between the king and the people,”{http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1064583.cms}
Yo raja le kei siknu pardaina?