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About 200 Twitter users in Nepal gathered outside the Indian embassy in Kathmandu to donate oil as fuel shortages become more acute.
It has been almost 2 weeks since India initiated an unofficial blockade, of which, they are refusing to be responsible for. Vehicles have been waiting in line for more than 24hrs to get fuel while private vehicles aren’t provided with one. Restaurants have started cooking in wood fire due to shortage of LPG gas. Factories & Industries have started to close down. Shortages have become so pronounced that pharmaceutical companies in Nepal say they will be unable to manufacture essential drugs in the coming weeks because of a shortage of raw materials created by the blockade. But India refuse to be responsible for the blockade. India says that – Nepal should first solve their internal affair and only then they’ll let the vehicles carrying fuel pass through the borders.
In this state of fuel crisis, the officers in Indian embassy have requested for fuels to Nepal government. Few hundred twitter users gathered in a protest to mockingly provided Indian embassy with the fuels. Protesters said that their demonstration was “in the spirit of good neighbourliness” which is why they mockingly decided to “donate” oil to the embassy even though many Nepalese people are enduring hardships because of what they say is the Indian-enforced fuel blockade.
Officials are now reported to be looking into the possibility of flying fuel into the country from nearby Bangladesh.
Steps have already been taken to curtail the sale of petrol to all private vehicles. The BBC’s Sanjaya Dhaka in Kathmandu says that at one point on Wednesday #DonateOilToIndianEmbassy became a top worldwide trend on Twitter. Nepal’s new constitution was promulgated two weeks ago, but sparked protests in the country’s southern plains bordering India.
