Kathmandu, May 16 -- Elected representatives-a mayor, a provincial assembly member and a member of the House of Representatives-on Wednesday gathered around four dozen locals to protest against the Pashupati Area Development Trust's plan to close the Tilganga-Tamaraganga road section.

Kageshwori Manohara Municipality Mayor Krishna Thapa, Province 3 Provincial Assembly member Rameshwor Phuyal from Nepal Communist Party, and Nepal Communist Party Member of Parliament Krishna Rai, backed by some locals, protested the Trust's move by saying that the road section must remain open.

The road along the Kageshwori Monohara Municipality passes through the historic Sleshmantak forest in the Pashupati area. And conservationists have expressed serio...