Students of Trichandra Multiple Campus staged a demonstration in the Capital on Tuesday against the decision of the government to issue an ordinance to grant amnesty to Resham Chaudhary. The students staged the demonstration outside the Campus this morning after the government decided to bring an ordinance to free Resham Chaudhary and Muhammad Alam among others who have been doing time for heinous crime. A large number of students took part in the protest program organized by the All Nepal National Free Students' Union Trichandra Campus Committee.

The government has been facing widespread criticism from all quarters of life after it decided to issue an ordinance to amend the negative list in Section 116 of Criminal Procedure Code.

The ordinance brought to grant amnesty to Chaudhary has already been sent to President Bidya Devi Bhandari for the authentication. NC General Secretary duo Gagan Thapa, Bishwa Prakash Sharma and leaders of various political parties have also condemned the government's move. Chaudhary has been serving a life term in the central jail for masterminding the carnage at Tikapur, Kailali, which took the lives of eight people including a toddler in August 2015. Meanwhile, the government has defended its move saying that past governments had also brought similar ordinances. Speaking at a press conference organized to make public the decision of the Cabinet meeting on Monday, government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki said that the government brought the ordinance to bring political parties and groups involved in criminal activities into peaceful mainstream politics.