Kathmandu, March 1
A member of the student wing of the Netra Bahadur Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal was arrested today after he hurled a shoe towards Pushpa Kamal Dahal, co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP). Dahal was addressing a programme to mark the first death anniversary of Bharat Mohan Adhikari, former finance minister and leader of the erstwhile CPN-UML, when the incident occurred at City Hall here today.
Ratan Tiruwa, 22, later told police that Dahal’s speech about class struggle delivered during the programme enraged him.
Ratan holds a diploma in engineering and is a son of Mun Tiruwa, a cadre of former Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist who was killed by security forces during the Maoist insurgency in the early 2
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