“Monarchy is no more. He should accept that,” PM Nepal told media persons at Simra, Bara where he stopped on his way to his home district Rautahat.[break]
Answering a query about government decision to bar Shah from attending a religious function on Tuesday, PM Nepal said the decision was taken for ‘its bad intention’.
“He tried to exercise power as cultural king,” he said. “They could have done the program at any other venue but they intentionally choose the place to overshadow President’s program.”
The government on Tuesday barred Shah from attending a felicitation program to former Kumaris at Basantpur where thousands of people have thronged to celebrate a day of Indra Jatra festival.
The Prime Minister also added that the government will stop any program intended against the republic.
PM Nepal also told the journalists that his party, CPN-UML, is honest to the agreement with Maoists and added that Nepali themselves, not United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), will handle the integration of Maoist combatants.
PM Nepal will inaugurate a campus and a school in Rautahat. He will return Kathmandu on Friday morning.
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