POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO JANAKUR BLAST STARTS Kathmandu, 1 May: Janakpur town has been shut down today [Tuesday] to protest yesterday's bomb explosion at local Ramananda Chowk. Ranju Jha, Bimal Sharan Das, Jhagaru Mandal and Suresh Upadhayay died and around three dozen people holding a sit-in protest were injured in the Incident, RSS reports. The bomb went off near the site of the sit-in agitation launched by Mithila State Struggle Committee where people were demonstrating demanding establishment of Mithila state. Fifteen seriously injured people including coordinator of the Struggle Committee, Parameshwor Kapadi, are undergoing treatment at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj in Kathmandu. Meanwhile, a three-member Investigation Team under the leadership of Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhupendra Khatri formed by the government to carry out investigation about the incident has started its work. EFFIGIES OF PM, DPM GACHHADHAR BURNT IN JANAKPUR Greatwayonline adds: Mithila State Struggle Committee (MSSC) has called an indefinite Janakpur bandh demanding to hunt dowm the criminals involved in Monday’s bomb blast that claimed the lives of four people and injured more than 24. Following the bandh, academic institutes, transportation, industries have been brought to a grinding halt. The protestors have brunt the effigy of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and Home Minister Bijay Kumar Gachhadhar, blaming for the weak security condition. Nnnn MAOIST MINISTER SAYS FORCES WORKING AGAINST CONSTITUTION Kathmandu, 1 May: Minister for Local Development Top Bahadur Rayamajhi has said that the constitution will be promulgated within the slated timeframe of the Constituent Assembly, RSS reports from Tansen. Speaking at an interaction organised by the All Nepal Trade Union, Palpa, he said the government is committed to promulgating the constitution within May 27. Minister Rayamajhi claimed that though some forces have been plotting against the constitution writing process, the major political parties will forge political consensus on the disputed issues appeared during the constitution writing process and promulgate the constitution. nnnn