A group of unidentified persons have abducted Chairman of Thabang Rural Municipality in Rolpa Bir Bahadur Gharti Magar on Thursday night.

According to the police, Thabang Rural Municipality Chief Magar was abducted at around 11 pm yesterday from Koichawang village while on his way to his in-laws’ village.

Magar, who won the rural municipality chairman post from CPN (Maoist Centre), was making preparations for the first village meeting that was scheduled to be held on September 16 and attended by CPN (MC) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Chief District Officer Dijan Bhattarai informed that security personnel from Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Investigation Bureau have been deployed in search of the missing chief.

A member of District Security Committee quoting Magar’s wife, who was with him when the incident took place, informed, “8-10 people came out of nowhere and took him (Magar) to a nearby hill saying they had some work. After that we don’t know the whereabouts of Magar.”

Magar had defeated Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist independent candidate Amit Gharti Magar in the recently held local level elections. Chand-led party claims Thabang to be its political stronghold.

Meanwhile, sources in the area have claimed that the abduction of the rural municipality chief was was carried out by Chand-led party cadres to foil the village meeting.

The police are yet to determine the identity of the abductors.