Miraj Dhungana, coordinator of the “Garikhana Deu” campaign, has said that three people came to attack his office on Wednesday evening.
He gave this information when we asked him what had happened at the office that required police intervention.
According to him, around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, three individuals came to his office in Naxal, Kathmandu, and got into an altercation and assaulted them. He said that one of them was wearing a mask, and that he recognized only one of the three.
“None of them are Gen Z members,” Dhungana told Setopati. “The person wearing the mask came to the office and tried to intimidate us. Even when I asked him to take off the mask so we could talk, he refused.”
He said that his team tried to restrain the three men who had come in aggressively.
According to Dhungana, while trying to restrain them, the male members of his team were initially mistreated, and then the female members were also pushed.
Dhungana said that after the attack began, they themselves called the police.
When asked if he recognized the attackers, he said that he recognized only Dr Jagat BK.
“One of them has the surname Thapa, and the other is Dr Jagat Bik,” he said. “I didn’t recognize the person wearing the mask.”
Dr Jagat, whom Dhungana accused of coming to attack him, is the coordinator of the injured protestors from the Gen Z movement of September 8 and 9.
Dhungana said that he does not clearly know why they came to attack him, and that they are not Gen Z representatives either.
According to Dhungana, the attackers complained that he was not working according to their agenda and that he was not answering their calls.
“When the police arrived, they cooperated well. They ran away. They had tried to vandalize the office but couldn’t,” Dhungana said. “They came in and said, ‘Why didn’t you do what I had said? You have to listen to me, you must answer my calls,’ and so on. I replied, ‘How can I answer calls from 30 million people?’ They weren’t even showing their faces.”
After the altercation began, a member of Dhungana’s team contacted Superintendent of Police Pawan Bhattarai of the District Police Range, Kathmandu.
“I got a call around 6 p.m. yesterday. One member of their team had called saying a dispute was about to break out,” he said.
He said that after receiving the call, a police team was sent to Dhungana’s office within five minutes.
“Then I called the same person again to ask what was going on—whether it was something that required police intervention,” SP Bhattarai said. “He said it was just a minor dispute. Apparently, there was an argument during a conversation or discussion among themselves. I called again to reconfirm even after the police had already reached.”
