RPP youth leader arrested for burning Prachanda’s photo

KATHMANDU: A man who burned a picture of Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda,’ the chairman of the Maoist Centre and former Prime Minister of Nepal, has been arrested.

The individual, Nirajan Bam, a leader of the youth wing of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), was apprehended by the police at Bharatpur Airport in Chitwan.

Bam, originally from Kalikot, serves as the General Secretary of the RPP’s youth organization.

He burned Prachanda’s photo during an event in Hetauda, Makwanpur, on Saturday.