CHITWAN: The Home Minister Sudan Gurung’s secretariat issued a statement rejecting rumors circulated claiming Home Minister had been assaulted while attending the national convention of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in Chitwan. The Home Ministry’s secretariat clarified the reports as false and fabricated, urging media outlets and the public not to trust such claims.
In a message shared by the minister’s aide, Kamal Sargam Chaulagain, the secretariat said no attack had taken place.
However, attention later shifted to a separate incident involving the minister’s stay at a hotel in Bharatpur.
According to reports, while having breakfast at Lords Plaza Hotel in Bharatpur on Tuesday morning, the minister allegedly found a fish bone in an omelette served to him.
Reports then spread claiming the minister summoned hotel staff and instructed local authorities to take action.
Subsequently, a police team took two hotel employees into custody for questioning.
Later in the day, the minister’s secretariat issued another clarification, denying reports that employees had been arrested at the minister’s instruction.
The statement said the matter involved only a routine inquiry by food authorities regarding concerns over food quality and that no employees had been arrested on the minister’s orders.
However, Chitwan police confirmed to journalists that two hotel workers had been taken in for questioning after concerns were raised over food served to a hotel guest.
Police said the workers were questioned and would be released afterward, with no immediate indication of formal charges.
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