Baban Singh, the independent winner from Rautahat constituency-1, who is sought by the police on multiple criminal cases including September’s serial blasts in Kathmandu, has said he would to attend the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) if the authorities ensured his security.

Reports citing a statement issued by Baban Singh said he was on the run as the police were still searching for him and that he needed guarantee of security to come out in the open and enter the Assembly.

He also said “some groups” were badly after him, trying to incriminate him in the three bomb blasts in the capital city on September 2, 2007 that killed three people and wounded more than two dozens others.

To recall here, Baban also faces a murder charge and multiple other criminal charges in Nepal and India and is in the ‘most wanted’ list of the police in both the countries. He was also accused of inciting the deadly riot in Rautahat during an assembly in Gaur which killed 27 Maoist cadres last year.

He had openly admitted to have masterminded the blasts, describing the terror attack as an act of vengeance of Madhesi people against the state. At that time he had identified himself by his alias, Mr John.

Baban was never seen in the public during the election campaigning, fearing arrest by the police. His wife, daughters and some relatives did the campaigning for him, mostly asking the voters to give him a chance to correct himself and save him from being hanged to death for his crimes.

In a recent interview with Avenues Television, a Kathmandu-based news channel, Baban claimed that he was never involved in any criminal activities.

The Election Commission has already made it clear that it is for the CA Court to decide what to do with his electoral win. nepalnews.com mk May 09 08