{"id":430691,"date":"2026-06-01T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=430691"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:59:46","slug":"opposition-parties-demand-pms-apology-over-border-remarks-vow-to-disrupt-house-proceedings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/430691.html","title":{"rendered":"Opposition parties demand PM\u2019s apology over border remarks, vow to disrupt House proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Opposition parties have decided not to allow Parliament to function until Prime Minister Balendra Shah apologises for his statement on the Nepal\u2013India border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A meeting of opposition parties held at Singha Durbar on Sunday concluded that the Prime Minister\u2019s remarks were flawed and should be removed from the record of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Nepali Congress Whip Niskal Rai said that if the Prime Minister\u2019s statement is true, he must clarify it; otherwise, he should apologise in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CPN-UML Deputy Parliamentary Party Leader Padma Aryal said the statement made in the sovereign parliament has brought shame to the country and hurt national self-respect. She added that the Prime Minister should issue an apology in the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Whip Yubaraj Dulal of the Nepali Communist Party said the opposition has demanded the removal of the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Whips of the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, Nepali Communist Party, Shram Sanskriti Party, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party attended the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the Prime Minister\u2019s statement was incorrect and must be corrected; they will continue their protest in Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting of opposition parties held at Singha Durbar on Sunday concluded that the Prime Minister\u2019s remarks were flawed and should be removed from the record of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":430692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-430691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430693,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430691\/revisions\/430693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430691"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=430691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}