Kathmandu, August 27
Prime Minister KP Oli has ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs to submit a clarfication to his office explaining why former Maoist Combatant Lenin Bista was not allowed to go to Thailand last week.
This comes two days after 27-year-old Bista, who was heading to Thailand to attend a youth conference on peacebuilding, was not allowed to leave Nepal. Immigration officials had told him they were under orders to not allow him to go past the immigration check.
Prime Minister Oli, who was talking to editors of various media outlets, said that the ministry has been given 24 hours to submit the clarification. Oli said that he was aware that the restriction on Bista amounted to a restriction on his personal freedom of movement.
