The Sudurpaschim provincial government has declared a public holiday on Wednesday June 21st 2023 expressing grief over the demise of Sudurpaschim Provincial Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Prithvi Bahadur Singh Singh.
An emergency meeting of the cabinet decided to give the holiday on Wednesday and fly the national flag at half-mast as tribute to late Singh.
The ill-fated jeep (SU PRA 001 Jha 480) in which Minister Singh was traveling from Dadeldhura to Bajhang met with an accident on the bank of the Kalanga River in Kedarsyun Rural Municipality-1 of Bajhang at 2:30 PM on Tuesday June 20th.
Minister Singh was taken to hospital but passed away while undergoing treatment at Nepalgunj-based Hospital later in the evening. Singh's wife Amrita and his sister-in-law Jayadevi also died shortly after the accident.
