Kathmandu. After the arrest of the journalist, the ruling party Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) has called a secretariat meeting. Ravi Lamichhane, President of Raswapa, has called a meeting of the Basnegri party’s secretariat at 11:00 this Saturday morning.
A party leader informed that a message was sent to the leaders on Friday night to attend the secretariat meeting on Saturday to discuss current issues. Earlier on Friday evening, Speaker Lamichhane had a discussion with Law Minister Sobita Gautam, who is also a legal expert.
On Friday evening, plainclothes police entered the newsroom and detained Nepalpress.com journalist Vishwamani Subedi, DN Khabar journalist Dheeraj Basnet, and Motivate News journalist Shobraj Baral.
Similarly, police in plain clothes entered the office of Naya Patrika to arrest journalist Navraj Mainali. When Mainali was not found, the police had a two-and-a-half-hour tussle with Khagendra Pant, the editor of Naya Patrika.
After it was widely criticized, both the government and the government leader RSVP issued statements claiming that they had no information about the journalist’s arrest. However, the police later released all the journalists.