UML leader Mahesh Basnet has alleged that the decision to close the Nagdhunga-Naubise-Malekhu road section for five hours daily has been taken to inconvenience those coming to participate in the UML general convention.

The road department said that the section is narrower than elsewhere and that a lot of heavy equipment and transportation vehicles need to be mobilized at once to blacktop the road, so the work will be done by stopping traffic for some time, said Keshav Prasad Ojha, head of the eastern section of the Nagdhunga-Muglin road project.

UML leader Basnet, on the other hand, has accused Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Kulman Ghising of engaging in revenge politics to influence the UML general convention. Basnet has also suggested the government to withdraw the decision through social media. 'The government's decision to close traffic from Nagdhunga to Piplamod and from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm in the Pokharevhir area from Mangsir 24 (Wednesday) to Poush 1 on the pretext of widening the narrow and dangerous Pokharevhir area of ​​the Gajuri section is completely motivated by wrong motives,' Basnet said. 'This move by the government and Kulman with the intention of disrupting the UML's Mangsir 27-29 general convention is not only wrong - it is a politics of revenge. Remember, revenge will be retaliated.'

Basnet has also called for the decision to be withdrawn. 'It will be in the interest of both the government and Kulman to immediately withdraw the decision and work from the first week of Poush,' Basnet said.

Keshav Prasad Ojha, head of the eastern section of the Nagdhunga-Muglin road project, said that the construction and expansion work has not been carried out with any specific program in mind. 'Such programs are ongoing, and development work is also being done in parallel,' he said. 'The construction period is also coming to an end. Therefore, we are working to speed up the work as the work needs to be completed soon.'