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1. The Tharu people in the Terai in southern Nepal are unhappy about their status in the country.
2. They made some demands that the government agreed to meet.
3. They don’t feel that the government is moving fast enough on this, so they instituted a bandh (strike and demonstration).
4. All petrol and diesel comes into Nepal on trucks from India.
5. Because of the bandh in the Terai, the tanker trucks can’t get through.
6. There is a huge shortage of all fuel products in the Kathmandu valley. (No traffic jams for days as there are so few cars on the road.)
7. The Prime Minister cannot be expected to go without electricity in his home at all times.
8. Because of the fuel shortage, he cannot run his generators.
9. The power company has had to turn on his electricity full-time to compensate.
10. I live just down the road from the Prime Minister and am in his load-shedding group.
11. I have had power around the clock for several days.

Let’s all get out there and support the Tharu people in their bandh!!!