The price of chicken meat was only Rs 180 a kg before Dashain. As meat demand goes up during Dashain and as the goats were in short supply, chicken price shot up during the period.
Chicken price rises to Rs 410 per kg
Lamichhane claimed that the cooperative fraud case was used as a pretext to launch political retaliation against the party, which intensified after the Nepali Congress-led government came to power.