{"id":76284,"date":"2026-07-16T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=76284"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:38:31","slug":"home-minister-mahato-meets-bibek-mandals-family-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/76284\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Minister Mahato meets Bibek Mandal&#8217;s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Rajendra Bishwakarma, Nepal News Bank<\/p>\n<p>Sarlahi. Minister for Home, Communications and Law of Madhesh Province, Fakira Mahato, met with the family of late Bibek Mandal of Godaita Municipality-10, Sisautiya in Sarlahi district. Minister Mahato reached Mandal&#8217;s residence on Tuesday evening and met with the bereaved family. <\/p>\n<p> He expressed deep sorrow over the untimely demise of Vivek and urged the family members to be patient.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed his commitment that the state government would stand with the family in this hour of grief and take initiative to provide necessary support. <\/p>\n<p> Talking to Nepal News Bank, Minister Mahato said that Bibek&#8217;s wife will be provided employment through the state government.<\/p>\n<p>The government was sensitive towards the problems of the people of his constituency and added that necessary support would be provided to the families of their families. <\/p>\n<p> Vivek Mandal had attempted self-immolation by pouring petrol on his body on Friday and setting himself on fire.<\/p>\n<p>He sustained burns on 85 percent of his body and was undergoing treatment at the Burn Hospital in Kirtipur, Kathmandu. He died while undergoing treatment at around 2 am on Monday. <\/p>\n<p> With the death of Vivek, the family is in a serious financial crisis. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. According to the family, they are yet to repay a loan of Rs 35 lakh taken from the village and banks. His brother is in Qatar for foreign employment. <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, Godaita Municipality has announced financial assistance of one lakh rupees to the Mandal family.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Devendra Yadav said Rs 25,000 was immediately handed over to the families and the remaining Rs 75,000 would be provided once the municipality&#8217;s account is opened. <\/p>\n<p> He said that the decision to provide relief to the families who are in financial crisis has been decided.<\/p>\n<p>Following the demise of Mandal, the family has sought support from the state in terms of long-term financial support, employment and loan management. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajendra Bishwakarma, Nepal News Bank Sarlahi. Minister for Home, Communications and Law of Madhesh Province, Fakira Mahato, met with the family of late Bibek Mandal of Godaita Municipality-10, Sisautiya in Sarlahi district. Minister Mahato reached Mandal&#8217;s residence on Tuesday evening and met with the bereaved family. He expressed deep sorrow over the untimely demise of<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/76284\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Home Minister Mahato meets Bibek Mandal&#8217;s family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":76272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo-1_7c955c3b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76285,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76284\/revisions\/76285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/76272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}