The Rastriya Prajatanta Party (RPP) has urged the government to form an independent commission to probe the killing of a CPN-UML cadre Umesh Chandra Thapa in Dang on Wednesday.

A press statement issue by the party on Friday demanded that the government take strongest action against the culprit and provide compensation to the victim’s family.

The party had demanded Home Minister Kamal Thapa’s resignation on moral ground.

On the eve of election, Thapa had said that security personnel were empowered to even shoot at those disrupting the polls.

Security personnel shot dead Thapa in Dang when he was returning to his home after taking part in a peaceful protest rally organized by the seven party opposition alliance at Ghorahi of Dang district on Wednesday.

The Defense Ministry, however, claimed that Thapa was killed when security personnel opened fire in self-defense after an unruly crowd tried to attack a polling center at Bal Mandir and somebody from the crowd opened fire injuring a police inspector.

RPP also said it could not recognize the municipal poll held with almost zero turn out of the people.