Misuse of power: VIPs continue to ignore rules meant for the general public

On May 3, 2019, President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was scheduled to be at the House of Representatives to present the annual policy and programme . Citing the VVIP arrival, Kathmandu’s traffic police halted all vehicular movement for half an hour in Maharajgunj, Durbarmarg, Singhadarbar and Baneshwor.

That created chaos in the city as there were traffic jams on all the major roads. Frustrated by how long they had to wait, people started to blow their horns at the traffic police as a sign of protest. This had happened before when Bhandari was travelling to an event, and the public had expressed its frustration in a similar manner.