Kathmandu, June 8: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party has issued a press communique stating that its serious attention has been drawn to deplorable and fictitious views about the RPP chairman carried on the website of the India Today magazine published from India.

The communique, signed by RPP general secretary Pashupati Shumsher JBR, says the unfounded allegation against the RPP leadership based on unconfirmed news reports that the Daud group had tried to meet Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa and other ministers in February l998 to hand over Rs l50 million so as to be allowed to carry out smuggling activities, is an attempt to character-assassinate, and cannot be condemned adequately.

To write on the basis of unconfirmed news reports that any criminal tried to meet the Prime Minister to hand over money is an expression of evil intent and amounts to conspiracy to defame the RPP leadership, it said adding that a serious question has arisen as to who hatched the conspriacy and with what motive.

The time has come for all patriotic Nepalese to seriously ponder the true intentions behind this base conspiracy trying to show that Nepal’s state leaders are associated with an anti-India criminal group, it is also stated.