Business closed in protest to bomb explosion

Kathmandu, March 10: Foreign employment entrepreneurs have closed their business on Sunday in a protest to the bomb explosion at the house of Rohan Gurung, President of Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA), on Friday. 

They have also demanded security of their lives and businesses.

Netra Bikram Chand-led Nepal Communist Party claimed the responsibility of the blast. The NAFEA has said that the blast was executed after the entrepreneurs refused to give donations to the Chand-led NCP.

Meanwhile, National Business Initiative (NBI) has condemned the criminal act.

The business environment in the country is improving gradually but such acts create terror and scare away the entrepreneurs and investors, it said.

“This is the time to promote private sector as the country needs more investment and production in order to lead the country on the path of development.  Targeting the private sector businesses, discouraging them and detonating bombs to create terror have cast a doubt on the sustained peace in the country,” said the NBI General Secretary Surendra Bir malakar.

The NBI has demanded the government to bring the culprits to book and guarantee peace and security, and create an environment where business could prosper.

The blast on Friday evening had completely destroyed Gurung’s car.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on March 11, 2019.