Kathmandu, Aug. 25 -- Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal on Saturday announced protest programmes against the land-related bill, two days after a parliamentary committee endorsed it.

The JSP-Nepal has claimed that some of the provisions of the Bill to Amend Some Nepal Acts Related to Land which was passed by the Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Committee of the House of Representatives, are seriously objectionable and that they are not in the country's and the people's interests.

Issuing a statement on Saturday, JSP-Nepal General Secretary Lalbabu Raut announced the protest from August 25 to August 31, with the slogan 'Save the land and forests, protect the Madhesh from desertification'.

"The land-related bill neither serves t...