Former Nepal Home Minister Kamal Thapa and several others were arrested on Sunday. According to the police, according to the police, these people were arrested for trying to enter the restricted area during pro -monarchy demonstrations in Kathmandu. The pro -monarchy was protesting in Narayan Chaur on the fourth day of the faction movement. The purpose of the movement was to bring back the monarchy in Nepal again and establish it as a Hindu kingdom.
Nepal officials on Friday banned protests and public functions around the Narayanhiti Palace area amidst Kathmandu amid demonstrations.
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According to Kathmandu Valley Police spokesman Epil Bohora, the President of the National Democracy Party (RPP) and the strong supporter of the monarchy Rajendra Lingden were leading the protest, when the protesters tried to break the security barricade and march towards the Prime Minister’s official residence Baluwatter, they clashed with the police.
The Kathmandu Post quoted the police as saying that RPP-Nepal President and former Nepal Home Minister Thapa was detained for violating the banned area ordered around the Narayanhiti Palace Museum area in Narayan Chaur area.
RPP and RPP- pro-monarchy groups including Nepal started the Kathmandu-centric protest program from May 29, aimed at restoring the monarchy and establishing a Hindu kingdom in Nepal. The protests have been peaceful till date.
Bohra said that about 1,200 monarchy protesters raised slogans against the Republic system and in favor of the monarchy. He had taken pictures of former King Gyanendra Shah and raised slogans against the government led by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
In 2008, the political parties of Nepal abolished the 240 -year -old monarchy through a parliamentary process and converted the former Hindu kingdom into a secular, federal, democratic republic. However, there is a wave of protests in support of the monarchy in Kathmandu and many other parts of the country in recent months.
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