Kathmandu. Home Minister Sudhan Gurung is holding talks with farmers, workers and victims who have been agitating against meter interest and fraud for a long time.
The meeting is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon at the meeting hall of the Municipal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Nijgadh, Bara.
The first and second rounds of talks that lasted for about five hours each on Tuesday and Wednesday ended inconclusively.
The victims had started a ‘Foot March’ from the historic Tirhutiya Gachhi in Janakpur of Dhanusha on July 25 from the historic Tirhutiya Gachhi of Dhanusha district to Kathmandu against meter interest and fraud.
Home Minister Gurung himself has arrived in Nijgadh of Bara to listen to the grievances of the victims who are seeking justice and to address the agitation.
The agitators have submitted a six-point demand to the Home Administration with a clear blueprint to resolve their problems.
Among the demands put forth by the Home Minister are scrapping fake documents, formulating a powerful special act against meter interest, formation of a special tribunal, investigation into the properties of moneylenders and moneylenders, returning the victim’s property and ensuring fair financial transactions.
The technical and legal complexities of the demands were discussed in detail during the last two days of talks.
The representatives of the agitators have taken a stand that they will not stop the agitation until the state makes concrete and implementable commitments, while the government has said that homework is being done to resolve the problem in a legal way.
The third round of talks, which will begin at 12 noon today, will determine how this long and arduous struggle of the Meter Interest victims will be brought to a logical conclusion. Thousands of victims across the country are now watching this negotiation in Nijgadh with great interest.
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