The agitating 33 political parties, including the Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Maoist, called off Monday’s banda, considering the Rato Machchhindranath Jatra which will be observed on the same day.

A meeting of those parties Sunday decided to call of their nationwide strike they had planned in protest of controversial former chief secretary Lok Man Singh Karki’s appointment as chief of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority.

Their other programs of protest will remain unchanged, the parties said.

Source: Myrepublica