Butwal, December 21
Rupandehi district security committee has recommended the government to declare Youth Association (Rupandehi) Chair Durga Tiwari, who died in a shooting at Khairahani Bazaar, Devdaha municipality, a martyr.
Rupandehi district security committee has recommended the government to declare Durga Tiwari a martyr.
Wednesday’s meeting of the committee made this recommendation to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Meanwhile, a funeral procession was taken out from Pushpa Lal Park for cremating Tiwari.
Tiwari’s family and the association’s mother party, CPN-UML, has accused the government of not bothering to investiage the murder that is political in nature.
The bereaved family has accused the government of trying to link the murder with a person named Manoj Pun, in a bid to mislead the course of the probe.
The family has accused the government of trying to link the murder with a person named Manoj Pun, in a bid to mislead the course of investigation. Chakrapani Tiwari informed that his younger brother Durga had received threats to his life while leading the movement (against the government-sponsored Constitution Amendment Bill that seeks to divide Province 5).
Chakrapani informed that unidentified people had shot at vice-president of FNCCI (Bhairahawa) right after demonstrations against the bid to divide Province 5. He informed that his brother had received threats of a similar atttack.
‘Prime Minister and Home Minister had spoken in favour of reining in the movement, calling it anti-federal disturbance. In this context, the murder of Youth Association (Rupandehi) chair is not just a coincidence’
CPN-UML leaders pointed that Prime Minister and Home Minister had described the Butwal-centric movement as anti-federal disturbance. They pointed that the two had spoken in favour of reining in the movement right before the shooting. The UML leaders said: In this context, the murder of Youth Association (Rupandehi) chair is not just a coincidence.
Meanwhile, Rupandehi police are conducting a search for Manoj Pun, a former YA cadre, on the suspicion of his involvement in the case.
