Apr 11, Kathmandu- Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has warned people not to imagine a Hindu nation by setting people on fire inside their homes and setting people's houses on fire.

He asked, saying that Hinduism does not say that, "People have been set on fire inside their homes and killed. People's houses have been set on fire. This is how a Hindu nation comes? Is this what Hinduism says?" Home Minister Lekhak has interpreted the violent demonstration by royalists in Tinkune, Kathmandu on Chaitra 15 as an attempt to tear up the constitution and destroy the system.

At a meeting of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee under the House of Representatives on Friday, he said, "That was an attempt to tear up the constitution and destroy the system." A protest in Tinkune, Kathmandu, in the presence of RPP leaders, for the restoration of the monarchy, turned violent, resulting in the deaths of two people. There was also vandalism, arson and looting of public and private property.

While narrating the details of the incident in the parliamentary committee, Home Minister Lekhak said that one can express one's dissatisfaction with the current constitution and democratic system. But he said that there can be no system of going back on democracy as an alternative. The main accused in the Tinkune incident, Durga Prasai, along with RPP Senior Vice President Rabindra Mishra, General Secretary Dhabal Shumsher Rana, have been arrested. Prasai has been brought to Kathmandu from India via Jhapa today.