KANCHANPUR, Nov 18/Over three dozen Nepali citizens, who are on the way back to home from different Indian cities to cast vote in the November 19 Constituent Assembly (CA) election, have been stranded in Kanchanpur district headquarters, Mahendranagar.
They are facing trouble due to the shutdown enforced by agitating CPN-Maoist-led 33-party alliance. Most of the people entering through western checkpoint, Gaddachauki, are the residents of mountainous districts. Padma Raj Joshi, a local of Baitadi, who came Nepal from Hyderabad, India, for voting, is in a planning to return to India from Mahendranagar as no vehicles are plying to reach his home.
Joshi along with other five Nepali nationals are returning to India due to vehicular shutdown. They said that they had arrived at Nepal’s border three days back but are disappointed to see the grinding halt of vehicular movement, which made them unable to reach their destination.
Similarly, Bharat Rokaya, of Martadi, Bajura, who returned Nepal after working as a street laborer in Paudi Garwal of India to cast vote in the election, echoed Joshi. He said he is staying in a hotel in Mahendranagar for the past four days with the hope of returning to his home.
‘I had cherished a dream to make the candidate of own’ like winner in the CA election. But my dream has shattered by vehicular shutdown’, he aggrieved. Likewise, Manbir Damai of Doti district, who has returned from Bangalore, has also been stranded. His wish to cast vote in the historic CA election remains unfulfilled due to shutdown.