Kochila Andolan....

22nd May 2012 (9th jestha 2069 B.S) Historic Motorcycle Rally for Kochila Autonomous State.  More than 2500 motorbikes and around 6000 peoples participated in the historic motorcycle rally organized by Kochila Ekta Morcha demanding Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari districts as Kochila Autonomous State with self desisive rights of koch community. The participants of all the VDCs (Village

Development Committee) and Municipalities in between Mechi river to Kankai river of Jhapa districts gathered in mechi bridge. Where they hosted The participant from Sunsari tarted the rally after the Morang participants reached Itahari and handed over the flag of Kochila to them and finally the motorcycle rally ended in Koshi river after hosting the flag in Koshi bridge. Speaking in the closing ceremony central member Mr. Thaknu Rajbanshi said the Koch moment will continue till the last breadth. He also condemned of supression of peaceful ralley of Kochila by government in Jhapa and about Tharu moment also. In Jhapa district by seeing the huge crowds of motorbike and chanting slogans the CDO of Jhapa Narendra Sharma ordered all the security forces to stop the rally due to which the Nepal Police Force, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army stopped the ralley in Surunga river. The huge mass was ready to fight against Armed Police Force but thinking of possible damage of property and loss of life which might result due clash Avay Rajbanshi was compelled to comand the mass to about turn after two hours of debate with CDO, SSP, Army Chief and frequent phone calls from maoist Rajbanshi leader Purna Singh Rajbanshi and other senior leaders in central level. To preserve The right to demonstrate in street peacefully and to protect the citizen is the duty and responsibility of government but instead of giving protection the government have supressed the peace moment by citing different reason which develops fear and trauma in the members of moment that make the moment weak but just opposite of their desire the incident has made the Kochila Andolan more strong. The motorcycle rally after returning from Surunga was heading toward Chandragadi the Headquater of Jhapa district for closing ceremony and disclosing future programes of andolan to mass as well as to condemn for the supression but when the rally reached Garamani area few bahun vegabonds attaked the participants of rally with stick and khukuris due to which four participants were injured and three motorbikes were vendalized. The injured were Pramod Rajbanshi and Dil Kumar Rajbanshi from Charali, Biltu Rajbanshi from Chandragadi, Suren Rajbanshi from Birtamode. The discription of vandalized bike are: Me 2 Pa 2363 Discover 125 c.c Me 1 Pa 7622 Yamaha Gladiator Me 2 Pa 2940 Pulsar 150 c.c. The pressure groups meet with CDO have reported that the bahuns involved in the attack will be arrestted soon and will be taken legal punishment and damage will be compansiated.. the flag of Kochila Ekta Morcha by Vice-Codinator Mr. Avay Rajbanshi giving a short speech about Kochila moment and demands to be included in new constitution of Nepal. The motorcycle rally started from Mechi river along with the huge crowd of motorbikes more than 1500 in number carrying two and three people in each bike. The participants chanted slogan: join for kochila, do for kochila, die for kochila. There were more participants joining the rally on the way and there were lines of endless bikes from Mechi river to Itabhatta. The participants from Morang districts started the motorbike rally from Rangeli accompanied by more than 700 motorbike reached Itahari via Urlabari.