Madhav Kumar Nepal (File Photo)
A day after King Gyanendra called on the parties to forget bitterness of the past and come forward for dialogue, the royal government has issued order to continue the “house arrest” of general secretary of the CPN (UML), Madhav Kumar Nepal, by two months.
According to the UML central office, the District Administration Office of Kathmandu has already handed over the order to the UML leader.
The UML leader was placed under house arrest on January 20—the day the government imposed a day-long curfew to thwart a peaceful meeting being organized by the seven party opposition alliance in the capital.
Meanwhile, UML standing committee member and former deputy prime minister Bharat Mohan Adhikary was freed from house arrest this afternoon.
Five senior opposition leaders were placed under house arrest on the same day. Of them, the government has already lifted the order of house arrest against former premier and Nepali Congress president G P Koirala, former Home Minister and UML leader K P Sharma Oli and president of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe.
“Let us listen to others, put across our views, do away with discord and enhance mutual understanding; let us consolidate peace and democracy,” His Majesty said in his message to the nation on the occasion of National Democracy Day on Sunday.