”Personally, I have also suffered a great loss in this incident. Houses in Mahendranagar and Kathmandu were set on fire and destroyed... yet I consider my personal pain secondary when the entire country is reduced to ashes,” he said.
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The then Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has said that his losses were minor when the entire country was reduced to ashes. Giving a statement to the Commission of Inquiry into the incidents of Bhadra 23 and 24 on Monday, he said that he personally suffered great losses.
"Personally, I have also suffered a great loss in this incident. Houses in Mahendranagar and Kathmandu were set on fire and destroyed... yet I consider my personal pain secondary when the entire country was reduced to ashes," he said.
Similarly, while he took moral responsibility for the incident on the 23rd, he said that the incident on the 24th was planned.
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