By Xinhua,
KATHMANDU : Nepali government on Tuesday condemned the attack on Prime Minister Prachanda’s personal secretary Shakti Bahadur Basnet, citing done by the regressive forces that disliked peace and change, Nepali national news agency RSS reported.
Inquiring the health condition of Basnet at B&B Hospital in Lalitpur to the south of Nepali capital Kathmandu, government spokesman and Minister for Information and Communications Krishna Bahadur Mahara on Tuesday said the government has taken it as a conspiracy done by the conservatives against the lasting peace and a new constitution.
Mahara said the attack was not merely on an individual rather it was a conspiracy not to move forward the whole activities of the government.
Mahara who is also the senior leader of the leading party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M), said the government would not be disturbed by the incident and was serious to probe into the attack.
Meanwhile, 14 persons have been arrested by the police for the attack on Shakti Bahadur Basnet at his residence on Monday evening. Police said that those arrested were picked up from various parts of the capital but assailants had not been identified as yet.
Basnet was getting down from a vehicle at his residence in Lalitpur, when the assailants struck. He was hit in the thigh and rushed to B&B Hospital.