Why Prachanda Wanted to Arrest Balen Shah?
Nepal- President of Nepal Janamat Party CK Raut speaks about why Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) wanted to put the Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Balen Shah in jail, in the recent program Fireside from Kantipur tv. Raut told he was asked to attend a meeting call by Prachanda, it was a secret meeting, we didn’t knew why we were called and why the meeting was held, when he got there, Chief of the Nepal Army (प्रधानसेनापति), Inspector General of Nepal Police (प्रहरी प्रमुख), District CDO of three district (Kathmandu,Lalitpur,Bhaktapur), that time Home minister were all there. We found out Mayor Balen Shah had post a status in his facebook account regarding Singhadurbar and the politicians. Balen has post to put fire in Singhadurbar and telling all the politicians in singhadurbar as thief. Because of that they were called by Prachanda to asked what if they can arrest Balen Shah. At that time Raut realise telling he was new and found the difference between Democratic (लोकतान्त्रिक) and Leftist (बाम्पन्थी). Raut tells Prachanda asks me whether to arrest Balen in his post which he answers we must not arrest him because if we check his comments in the post more than 150k people are supporting him in which 95% are cursing the government. Prime minister and Home minister were very eager to arrest Balen but president of Nepali congress then told that it is a freedom of democratic, freedom of speak. Then the arrest to Balen Shah was stopped.
Prachanda wanted to arrest Balen because Balen Shah Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) had written in a facebook post “IT IS OKAY FOR TODAY, FROM TOMORROW IF ANY OF KATHMANDU METROPOLITAN CITY VEHICLE WERE STOPPED BY GOVERNMENT, I WILL SET FIRE ON SINGHADURBAR, BE CLEAR THIEF GOVERNMENT” in his facebook account. Balen had express his anger in the post after Kathmandu metropolitan vehicle was stopped by traffic police in Koteshwor carrying his wife.