Rallies may be by Oli or Dahal but it’s always citizens who suffer

Political parties and their leaders are interested in mass protests, but the people, including the participants of such demonstrations, say they are not.

On Wednesday, when Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced that one million of his party’s supporters would encircle Singha Durbar during the next round of protests, Sanumaya Thapa, was walking home with her two-year-old daughter from Nidan Hospital, Pulchwok, where her husband is undergoing renal dialysis.