BUTWAL, April 21 -- Despite three tiers of security, a man on Saturday waved black flag at Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who had reached to Butwal to inaugurate Jitgadhi Bijaya Utsav.

PM Oli had just started addressing the crowd when Rudra Prasad Ghimire of Butwal-11, Majuwa showed a black flag to him. Ghimire, who works in a local dairy industry, was an active cadre of then CPN (Maoist-Center). According to him, he just wanted to warn the government regarding the rising inflation in the country and unemployment among youths.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Dil Bahadur Malla of Area Police Office (APO), Butwal, informed Republica that police have started investigation by arresting the thirty-year-old Ghimire.

The arrestee had mana...