KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress cadres held a demonstration at Maitighar in Kathmandu protesting the arrest of senior leader of NC Ram Chandra Poudel on Wednesday.
Poudel was arrested in Tanahun today and was released in the evening.
Police had taken Poudel under control on charge of defying the prohibitory orders in his home district, Tanahun.
Soon after his release, he alleged the government for abusing the authority saying that he would go to inaugurate the bridge tomorrow morning.
Police arrested Poudel from Buldi Khola Bridge that was constructed by Byas Municipality.
He had reached there to inaugurate a bridge over Buldi connecting Talghare and Dumsi in Vyas.
Meanwhile, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba condemned the police highhandedness and arrest of NC senior leader Poudel.
“I condemn the police action,” NC President Deuba said in a statement on Wednesday labelling the arrest an act of totalitarianism.
Likewise, NC cadres held demonstration in Kathmandu protesting Poudel’s arrest this evening.
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