Leaders and MPs of the ruling and opposition parties have criticized the government for arresting and detaining Kailash Sirohia, president of Kantipur Media Group, in retaliation for the news about cooperative fraud. Chairman of the ruling party CPN United Samajwadi Party and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that the arrest of Kantipur President Sirohia is reprehensible.

I am surprised to hear that President Sirohia has been arrested. And, I am also sad," Nepal said while talking to the media persons at Rajviraj in Saptari on Wednesday, "What kind of country has this become? Clean media, is it a punishment for running good media? Did this happen out of a sense of revenge? President Nepal said that everyone knows that Kailash Sirohia is a resident of Janakpur.

Everyone knows that Kailash Sirohia is a native of Janakpur. This is where the whole family lives. Arresting Kailash Sirohia on the question of whether he is a citizen of Nepal or not is a very scandalous thing,' he said He said that there was no arrangement. Even if something needs to be understood, it does not mean that a person needs to be arrested. It is a serious crime and if there is a situation where the evidence will be destroyed if not arrested, he will be arrested," he said, "but the manner in which the arrest has been made while he himself is saying that he will assist in the investigation, is scandalous." 

President of Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal Upendra Yadav stated that Sirohia was arrested with prejudice and revenge. President Yadav, issuing a press release on Wednesday, said that the arrest of Sirohia has drawn the party's serious attention. In a statement issued by President Yadav, it is said, "We believe that attacking Kantipur media, which has been fighting for democracy for a long time, is a brutal attack on democracy, press freedom and freedom of expression." He should be released immediately by stopping the act of terrorizing the media sector by abusing the state machinery. The government is warned not to repeat such prejudicial incidents in the future," the statement said. 

The central working committee meeting of the National Democratic Party has mentioned that an investigation should also be started against Home Minister Lamichhane. The accusation of abuse of citizenship against President Kailash Sirohia has become a subject of judicial review. The RPP is clear that there should be a fair and judicial investigation of any person in any position who violates the law,'' said the statement issued by the spokesperson Mohan Kumar Shrestha. has been The law should apply equally to common people and ministers.

Kailash Sirohia, president of Kantipur Media Group, was arrested from the office on Tuesday on the pretext that the citizenship number given by the district administration was the same as that of another person. Ruling UML leader and former Home Minister Bhim Rawal has mentioned the incident of not taking action against Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane for taking two citizenships and passports against the law and said that the arrest of Kantipur Media Group Chairman Sirohia is a mockery of the rule of law. "When Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane has two citizenships and a passport against the laws of Nepal, no action will be taken, but Kailash Sirohia will be arrested overnight from the working room saying that the details of the two citizenships are different?" Rawal wrote on the social network X, "Is there a different law for the minister and others?" ? A mockery of the rule of law.'

Congress MP Pradeep Paudel said that the allegations leveled against the Kantipur chairman are biased and demanded an investigation against all those accused of fraud. The rule of law should not be run on the basis of revenge. But the state's behavior against Kantipur President Kailash Sirohia shows retaliation,' said Paudel, 'Let there be a fair investigation on him, and all those who are accused of cheating the common people should come under the scope of investigation.' Objected. He said that the government's move was undemocratic and objectionable.

Congress central member Ajay Babu Sivakoti has commented that the government has emerged as a new variant of Raja Gyanendra for democracy and press freedom. He said that the government is dreaming of suppressing journalists and prolonging power by retaliating against what the media wrote.