Kathmandu, May 1 -- A dramatic turn of events left many people bewildered for around five hours on Wednesday afternoon.

Leaders and cadres of Janamat Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP), among others, had gathered on the premises of the Nepal Academy at Kamaladi in Kathmandu to attend an event to announce unification between the CK Raut-led Janamat and Ranjita Shrestha-headed Nagarik Unmukti.

But, out of nowhere, a team of plainclothes policemen wearing helmets suddenly whisked away Resham Chaudhary, the patron of Nagarik Unmukti, from the event as other leaders and cadres from the two parties were busy preparing the stage for the function.

"The arrest resembled a kidnapping," Sharad Singh Yadav, Janamat spokesperson, told the Post f...