Kathmandu, February 3:

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has sought clarification within 24 hours from Nepal’s envoy to Myanmar Dr Guna Laxmi Bishwokarma on complaints against her for collecting donation in Myanmar for CPN- UML’s upcoming general convention.

According to the private secretariat of Foreign Minister, minister Upendra Yadav has asked Bishwokarma to clarify her stance on a news published in today’s Annapurna Post and the complaints filed against her in the ministry. Foreign secretary Gyan Chandra Acharya also confirmed that the ministry has sought clarification from the envoy.

Envoy Bishwokarma came in the line of fire for collecting donation for the CPN-UML’s eighth general convention, which begins in Butwal from February 16.

Sources said Nepalis living in Myanmar had complained to the ministry about her donation drive for the UML’s cause.

The envoy has also allegedly fleeced Nepali expatriates, who are living in Thailand.

She was appointed as a diplomat on the UML’s quota by the erstwhile government headed by Girija Prasad Koirala.

Written and oral complaints alleged that the envoy targeted both the expatriate Nepalis and diplomatic missions. She had pleaded to them that they should financially help her in view of the CPN-UML’s upcoming general convention.

“The Myanmar government is against this move. She should be told in no uncertain terms to stop this activity immediately,” added the formal complaint lodged with the MoFA.

Dr Bishwokrama, who has just returned to Myanmar after a month-long leave to Kathmandu, had owned up to the MoFA officials that she had been collecting donation for the CPN-UML’s general convention. She has, however, been warned not to indulge in these activities in the future in keeping with the bilateral relations between Nepal and Myanmar.

Also, the envoy had flouted Myanmar’s law, by recently conducting a religious programme on the premises of the Nepali Embassy in the junta-ruled nation.

Myanmar strictly prohibits envoys from holding such religious discourses.