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Fresh hostility erupted Thursday (November 20, 2025) arsenic 10 radical were injured aft Gen Z youths clashed with members of the ousted Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli’s party, prompting authorities to reimpose curfew to incorporate the concern successful Nepal’s Bara territory bordering India.
Tension escalated successful Simara Chowk successful Bara territory arsenic youths returned to the streets a time aft clashing with cadres of Oli’s Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), accusing constabulary of failing to apprehension individuals named successful their ailment implicit Wednesday’s (November 19, 2025) clashes, The Kathmandu Post said.
Protesters gathered astatine Simara Chowk from 11 a.m. Local medication astatine Bara had imposed a curfew from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. (local time) to forestall imaginable nonaccomplishment of beingness and property.
“However, the prohibitory bid failed to instrumentality effect, with demonstrators pouring into the streets and clashing with police. Authorities fired six teardrop state canisters and 2 rounds of aerial occurrence aft protesters defied the curfew and continued advancing,” quality portal Khabarhub said.
“Protesters besides pelted stones astatine information forces, injuring six constabulary personnel, portion 4 Gen-Z protesters were besides reported injured,” it added.
In a abstracted incident, the Gen Z demonstrators acceptable occurrence to the constabulary bushed successful Simara Bazaar, the quality portal said, adding, “Items from the UML bureau were besides removed and torched by protesters, accusing constabulary of hesitating to apprehension UML cadres progressive successful earlier clashes.”
The clashes successful the territory had archetypal erupted connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025), erstwhile the quality of CPN-UML wide caput Shankar Pokharel and enactment younker person Mahesh Basnet taking disconnected from Kathmandu for Simara to code an anti-government rally dispersed amongst Gen Z members.
Gen Z protesters gathered astatine the airdrome to reason their arrival, triggering the clash with section CPN-UML cadres.
Authorities subsequently imposed the curfew astir the airdrome country to bring the concern nether control.
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The UML leaders had past cancelled the rally. Meanwhile, constabulary person arrested 2 UML cadres, ward chairpersons—Dhan Bahadur Shrestha of Jeetpursimara Ward No. 2 and Kaimoddin Ansari of Ward No. 6—on charges of assaulting Gen Z youths during Wednesday’s clashes.
According to the police, arrests were made aft the ailment was filed against them astatine the Area Police Office, Simara.
Deposed Oli’s CPN-UML has been organising protests crossed Nepal demanding reinstatement of the House of Representatives, which dissolved connected September 12 pursuing the Gen Z question that toppled the Oli-led government. Oli had resigned connected September 9 pursuing the monolithic Gen Z protests.
Gen Z activists person sought enactment implicit the alleged wide sidesplitting of protesters connected September 9 during demonstrations against corruption and the past projected societal media prohibition nether the past Oli administration.
