{"id":3618,"date":"2026-06-22T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:08:55","slug":"uml-condemns-arrest-of-vice-chair-bishnu-paudel-calls-it-political-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"UML condemns arrest of Vice-Chair Bishnu Paudel, calls it political vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<p><strong>KATHMANDU:<\/strong> The CPN-UML has strongly condemned the arrest of its Vice-Chair Bishnu Prasad Paudel, accusing the government of carrying out an unlawful and politically motivated action.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement issued on Monday by party chair KP Sharma Oli, the UML described Paudel\u2019s arrest in Surkhet as being carried out in an \u201cabduction-style manner\u201d and denounced the move as a serious attack on democratic norms and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>The party claimed Paudel was in Surkhet to participate in organisational and election review programmes and was scheduled to return to Kathmandu the following day. UML argued that authorities could have sought clarification or conducted questioning through normal legal procedures rather than resorting to arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current ruling side\u2019s naked political retaliation against opposition parties has reached another extreme,\u201d Oli said in the statement. \u201cThis repressive action is clearly a continuation of a series of political attacks and conspiracies directed against me and the UML.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement further alleged that the government deliberately ignored legal alternatives and instead opted for arrest to gain short-term political mileage.<\/p>\n<p>UML accused the government of moving toward authoritarianism, warning that targeting opposition leaders through such actions would have serious political consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is heading down an undemocratic, authoritarian path. We warn the authorities to immediately stop such vindictive actions against opposition leaders,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The party also called on democratic forces, supporters of justice, and patriotic citizens to unite against what it described as arbitrary and anti-democratic government actions.<\/p>\n<p>Paudel was arrested on Monday while attending UML\u2019s internal organisational restructuring and election review programmes in Surkhet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: The CPN-UML has strongly condemned the arrest of its Vice-Chair Bishnu Prasad Paudel, accusing the government of carrying out an unlawful and politically motivated action. In a press statement issued on Monday by party chair KP Sharma Oli, the UML described Paudel\u2019s arrest in Surkhet as being carried out in an \u201cabduction-style manner\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_post_split":{"post_split":[{"template":"1","tag":"h2","numbering":"asc","mode":"normal","first":"0","enable_toc":"0","toc_type":"normal"}]},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-national","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}