Dear IGP Rabindra Pratap Shah,
Today, at a small picketing conducted by some youth at the Airport Gate to object the international travel of our top leaders while they have more important tasks in Nepal, there was a small argument with the police, regarding whether we would be allowed to picket or not, and whether permission was required to conduct this same activity in a public area.
We want you to understand that these protests are different from all the others that Nepal has ever seen. These are non-violent, and mostly silent expression... done only with placards and Nepalese Flags. We would like to request that Nepalese people be allowed to conduct peaceful protests in areas which are non-restricted (even if this shames our top leaders into positive action).
As you well know, our country is at the mercy of incompetent politicians, and citizen pressure seems to be the only way out of this impasse. This can come either in the form of the usual tyre burning, slogan chanting, public property destroying means (which we strictly abhor) or the peaceful modern ways of protest... like the silent expression picketing we have done at Durbar Marg, the symbolic sweeping of the CA premises, the Nepali flag rally in New Road, and these airport picketing.
We would request that sanity and common sense prevails and the Nepal Police (whose prime duty is to protect us) does not turn against us.
Our protests are aimed at ensuring that our fellow Nepalese do not feel helpless during these difficult times, but actually realize that there are peaceful means of release of these frustrations, in ways that are positive to change in this country.
I am sure this is also aligned with what you would want for this country.
Best Regards,
The People of Nepal
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