Nepal PM KP Oli at centre of row after varsity V-C stopped from boarding flight

The ‘boss’, a Deputy Inspector General rank official, took Koirala straight to the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluatar, with the message that Oli, who is the university’s Chancellor, wanted to see him immediately.

After waiting there for over an hour, he was told that Oli was busy and would see him the next day.

“I was treated like a criminal and the whole purpose of taking me to the PM’s residence and detaining me there seemed to be to make me miss my flight,” Koirala told The Indian Express.

The other members of the delegation took the flight.

On Sunday, the issue was raised in the Rashtriya Sabha — the upper house of Nepal’s Parliament. Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal told the Rashtriya Sabha that Koirala was going to Canada without the government’s authorisation.

A former minister who refused to go on the record, said, “The fact that he was taken to the PM’s residence in a police official’s vehicle and detained there for an hour shows PM’s complicity in the whole episode.”