Rajendra Mahato (born 19 November 1958) is the President of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP) party. He is the highest-ranked member of the Madhesh based parties alliance. He started his political career from 1990. In the 1994 parliamentary election, he stood as the Nepal Sadbhavana Party candidate in the constituency Sarlahi-2. In the 1999 parliamentary election he won the seat with 14750 votes, defeating former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party.
Police has said the person killed in police firing in Birgunj on Monday is an Indian citizen. The deceased is identified as 30 year old Aashish Ram. Ram died of bullet injuries in the head that he sustained when police opened fire near Shankaracharya gate in the Nepal-India border on Monday afternoon.
Police has recovered two sets of mobile phones with Indian numbers from Ram's body.
Issuing a press statement this evening, the Ministry of Home Affairs claimed that the law enforcement personnel were forced to open fire as their repeated bids to take the situation under control with baton-charging and tear gas failed.Statement:
The Ministry has observed that police were successful in resuming mobility across the border by removing protesters off the borderland earlier this morning, but the “Indian side did not cooperate with local Nepali officials’ requests with Indian counterparts to let cargo vehicles, fuel tankers and gas bullets enter Nepal.”
