RPP Leader to Government: Don't Get Afraid of King's Pictures

Are people, who seek active monarchy in this day and age, mentally healthy?  

Probably not, if the words of Buddhiman Tamang, a lawmaker and vice-chair of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, one of the parties rooting for some form of monarchy in the country, are any indication. 

Vice-chair Tamang, at a meeting of the parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, expressed doubts over the state of mental health of those people, "who are seeking an active monarchy like that of the 1960’s (2017 BS)". 

He said: This is the 21st century and we are carrying forward the agenda of keeping the monarchy as a guardian institution. This is the 21st century and it is impossible to have an active monarchy. Those pursuing such an agenda, they have something wrong with their mental faculties."
  
Tamang made it clear that he was not in favor of active monarchy and asked the government not to get rude shocks upon seeing someone with pictures of the king. 

There’s no doubt that I am in favor of monarchy (as a guardian institution) and I tell my children not to protest against monarchy till I am alive, Tamang said. 

He also criticized the government for arresting and imprisoning party general secretary Dhawal Shumsher Rana and (senior vice-president) Rabindra Mishra after the March 28 incidents of violence, arson, vandalism and deaths in Tinkune and Koteshwor.  

"On what crime is our general secretary Rana behind bars? Will Rabindra Mishra flee if he is not behind bars?"

Tamang demanded the release of their "friends" without delay.    

The former home minister further said: Videos of police firing teargas canisters at the podium (when the national anthem was being played at Tinkune) have surfaced. These videos show protesters being encircled from all sides. Sabin Maharjan was walking (at Koteshwor), why was he shot at?
 

Tamang demanded a judicial inquiry commission to bring out the facts.