LUMBINI, Sept 11: Lumbini Province Chief Chet Narayan Acharya has accepted the resignation of the Province Government's Minister for Forests and Environment, Badshah Kurmi.
Kurmi, elected to the Province Assembly on a Nepali Congress (NC) ticket from Banke Provincial Electoral Constituency Number 3 (B), was appointed as the Minister for Forests and Environment in the provincial government on July 24.
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Human rights campaigners have been protesting his appointment since the day he assumed office, citing his alleged involvement in the murder of a woman in Banke.
Kurmi resigned to allow for investigations into the allegations made against him.
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