Kathmandu, Oct 4: Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi today said the search continues for former minister Madhav Prasad Ghimire, who had gone missing after a jeep he was travelling in plunged into Trishuli River at Ghoptebhir in Chitwan on September 25.

At today’s Legislature-Parliament meeting, Nidhi, also the Home Minister, informed that the lasts rites of Ghimire was performed at Pashupati on September 30 as per the decision of Ghimire’s family after making a replica of Ghimire body from kush (a religious grass), deeming him dead.

He also informed that a committee has also been formed to investigate the accident. RSS