TAMGHAS (Gulmi), Dec 6: Life in Gulmi district continues to be crippled for the past seven consecutive days due to the indefinite banda called by local people to protest the proposal to take some hilly districts off Province 5.
Transportation halted while educational institutions, industries, the market remained closed.
Local people in their hundreds spilled into the streets and chanted slogans against the proposal to split Province 5.
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Service seekers visiting government offices for services have been affected as the protesters staged a sit-in in front of the offices.
The joint protest struggle committee coordinator Bhuvan Prasad Shrestha said the stir would continue until the proposal is withdrawn. RSS
