Following the Supreme Court verdict quashing an appeal against the dissolution of parliament, political parties have gone into campaign mode. The Maoists, for their part, resumed violence with an explosion at a college in Kathmandu Thursday that injured six people. They have announced a month-long protest against extra-judicial killings building up to a bandh on 16 September. The threat of violence is seen as a tactic to get the government to agree to talks in back-channel negotiations.

Between 9-26 August they plan to mobilise people through mass meetings and processions. From 27 August to 5 September a series of regional vehicle bans and blackouts have been announced. They plan violent attacks on individuals and institutions between 6-15 September. However, the Maoists seem to want to leave the door open for negotiations over their latest demands for lifting the emergency and setting up an interim government ahead of polls.