The Rastriya Janata Party has urged one and all to stay at home during the lockdown period. Issuing a press statement on Friday, the RJP Presidium coordinator Sharat Singh Bhandari has urged the government to be more serious to control of COVID-19 outbreak as pandemic was on rise across the globe day by day.

The party has further appealed to the government to deliver the basic goods to the people in the hour of crisis. The statement further reads that the allegedly irregularities in the purchase of medical equipments has panicked the people and the wrongdoers should be punished.

The party has also urged the government to permit Nepalis forcibly stranded in the border points to entry into the country. Effective quarantine should be set up to keep the suspected ones while permitting them to enter in the country. The press statement has also appealed to all concerned sides and bodies to be more serious to reach the relief to the needy ones on time.