KATMANDU: Nepalese police arrested more than a hundred protesters on Sunday for trying to enforce a nationwide strike, the latest in a string of protests against the new constitution.

“The police have arrested 112 cadres from across the country for vandalism and for forcing shops to shut down,” police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam said, adding that protesters have attacked 16 vehicles.

Nepal’s bickering parties struck a breakthrough deal earlier this month to redraw the country’s internal borders in the draft new constitution.

Under the charter, which has been held up for years by political wrangling, Nepal will be restructured as a federal state with six provinces.

But several lawmakers and their supporters called the strike, saying the proposed borders discriminated against historically marginalized communities.

“State reconstruction in the draft is far from the aspirations of the people,” Pampha Bhusal, spokeswoman of CPN-Maoist, a breakaway faction of the Maoist party, told AFP.