Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal's wife Ravilaxmi Chitrakar recounts ordeal during Janji protest

Kathmandu. It was 11 AM on Bhadra 24. Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal, his wife Rabilaxmi Chitrakar, and son Nirvik were sitting on the second floor of their house in Dallu. The Janji movement, which had started the previous day, was intensifying. None of them had thought that the tension of the movement would reach their home.

Jhalanath had already eaten. Rabilaxmi and her son were preparing to eat. Suddenly, a crowd began to gather outside the house. The crowd was pelting stones at the house of their neighbor Mahesh Raj Pant. What happened? Why did it happen? And how did it happen? No one had time to find out.