UML leader mistreated journalist at polling station in Pokhara

POKHARA: MAY. 18 – CPN-UML leaders mistreated a journalist who went to the Pokhara Metropolitan City polling station for a news report.

In the process of getting feedback from the leaders who were chanting slogans after a dispute in the counting of votes leader Damodar Bairagi threatened with abusive language

Leader Bairagi used threatening language toward Online Khabar journalist Amrit Subedi and AP1 Television Pokhara bureau chief Sagar Raj Timilsina. “Due to a disagreement, we had arrived at the location where the sloganeering was taking place.” “At the time, the CPN-UML was chanting slogans to halt the counting of votes,” Timilsina of AP1 TV explained. ” At the time, he gave the order to the cadres to beat.

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Amrit Subedi, an online Khabar journalist, also claimed that he was threatened with expulsion from the polling station.

The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Kaski, has expressed regret for the mistreatment of journalists in the course of their reporting. Bimala Bhandari, the chairperson of the FNJ Kaski, stated that mistreatment of journalists under any pretext would not be tolerated.

“Journalists should not be abused under any circumstances. Furthermore, journalists who work in the field of reporting have been mistreated,’ said Bhandari. This attack on the press is not tolerated in any democracy. We regret this proclivity.”