CPN UML Demands PM Balen Shah Withdraw Anti-National Border Statement

Kathmandu. CPN UML has stated that the protest will continue as long as Prime Minister Balen Shah does not withdraw his statement against the country's interests regarding the border.

In Tuesday's meeting of the House of Representatives, UML MP Ganesh Singh Thaguna said that although the government has the responsibility to protect the nation's sovereignty, Prime Minister Shah himself gave a wrong statement that Nepal has encroached upon India's border, and therefore, the statement should be withdrawn and removed from the parliamentary record.

He said that the opposition has been continuously raising questions about the Prime Minister's statement but it has been ignored. He also said that yesterday, by blocking a vehicle in front of media offices, a glimpse of the Panchayat era was given.

Similarly, CPN MP Ramesh Malla also said that the incidents in the capital yesterday and the day before yesterday, following the incident of Ganesh Nepali, are very serious, expressing that the Prime Minister's statement was ignored and not corrected.

"Vehicles were parked in places like New Road by state-protected individuals, and yesterday the same behavior was meted out at the homes of media and party leaders by state-protected party leaders," he said, "It is impossible for the state itself to create terror and impose a fine of five hundred."