Arrests condemned

KATHMANDU: The Tarai Madhes Democratic Party has objected to the arrest of United Democratic Madhesi Front leaders in Rupandehi.

TMDP on Friday issued a press statement saying its district chair Ajay Verma, district chair of Nepal Sadbhawana Party Harish Chandra Singh Saithwar and other UDMF leaders Ravi Yadav, Tulasi Ram Yadav and Ram Bilas Yadav had been arrested from different places of Rupandehi.

TMDP condemned the arrest of the UDMF leaders saying it was an infringement of the leaders’ right to peaceful assembly and demanded their immediate release.