Khula Manch was closed in 2016 for six months. Plans are finally afoot to open it

As the City plans to open it next week, it will reduce traffic snarls during political protests, and the open area will give people space to express themselves in a democratic society.

Spring has traditionally been the season of political protests in Nepal. The people’s movement of 1990 to abolish the three-decade old one-party panchayat rule took place in the spring. The 2006 people’s movement that ultimately ended the centuries-old monarchy also took place in the spring.