UML condemns bid to arrest top leaders

March 15, 2006
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The CPN (UML) has condemned the security authorities act of gheraoing the party’s central office at Balkhu, Kathmandu, in a bid to arrest senior leaders when a meeting of the Standing Committee was underway on Tuesday.

Issuing a press statement on Wednesday, the UML said the party strongly objected the presence of the Armed Police Force (APF) personnel outside the party headquarters in an apparent bid to arrest the top leaders including Bamdev Gautam, Jhalnath Gautam and Amrit Kumar Bohora.

The UML said dozens of APF personnel were stationed outside the premises of the central office for nearly three hours from 3:00 p.m. Telephone lines of the party office were also cut off.

While the security men waited outside, UML cadres secretly drove the leaders out of the party office on motorbikes, according to reports.

Top UML leaders including Khanal, Gautam and Bohora have been coordinating party affairs from make-shift locations while party general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal remains under house arrest for some weeks now.