The locals of Chandranigahpur have announced a relay hunger strike demanding the government to establish the branches of the District Land Revenue Office and the Survey Office as planned.

The government had decided to extend the services in Chandranigahpur benefitting a municipality and 22 VDCs in the north.

However, the locals of Gaur have been demanding for the reversal of the government's decision to extend the two government services to Chandranigahpur, which is 42 km from Gaur.

Following the government's decision, there have been ongoing protests in Gaur since mid-March with the protestors demanding the reversal of the decision. The Rautahat Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been leading the demonstrations demanding for the reversal of the same decision.

On 3 April, the demonstrators were ready to call off the protests as the Prime Minister's Office decided to revoke the decision. But an Armed Police Force van accidentally hit Ram Ashish Thakur, one of the protestors, who later died at Gaur Hospital. Irate locals took to the streets demanding a martyr's status for Thakur and compensation to the family.

The local administration placed a curfew on Saturday as the protestors resorted to violence. The protestors however did not heed the order and a violent clash erupted between the protestors and security personnel, with more than 30 demonstrators and security personnel being injured. Protestors staged a peaceful protest on Sunday after the curfew was lifted.

Likewise, the talks that started late night on Sunday between the government team comprising of local administrative and security officials, and the agitating party about the ongoing protest has been put on hold after both the parties failed to come to an agreement on the issue of a martyr status for Thakur.

The situation at Rautahat got more tensed on Monday after clashes erupted near the Indian border. Protestors in Belbichuwa, a border town five kilometers from district headquarters in Gaur, vandalised the Armed Police Force (APF) base camp.

According to SP Bidur Khatiwada, unidentified masked men fired fifty rounds of bullets from 200m in the south, after the incident broke out. To calm the situation and disperse the crowd the AFP air-fired three rounds of tear gases. The Indian police were informed about the firings from the Indian side but the perpetrators are yet to be identified and caught.

Many believe the protests to be the brainchild of local businessmen fearing loss in business if the services are extended while many others seem misinformed that the government may be trying to move the headquarters itself.

These days violent protests in central Tarai have become a norm to protest against the government's decision to extend administrative services in more than one place. In February similar protest had gripped Kalaiya, the headquarters of Bara.