{"id":15601,"date":"2026-04-22T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=15601"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:54:46","slug":"gurung-had-bought-20-ropani-of-land-in-dhankuta-just-two-days-before-becoming-home-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=15601","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Gurung Had Bought 20 Ropani of Land in Dhankuta Just Two Days Before Becoming Home Minister<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU \u2014 Sudhan Gurung, who resigned as minister on Wednesday following a property dispute, had purchased 20 ropani of land in Dhankuta just two days before his appointment as Home Minister, records have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dhankuta Land Revenue Office, 19 ropani and 15 aana of land at Karkichhap in Sangurigadhi Rural Municipality-6 was registered in Gurung&#8217;s name via deed on Chaitra 11 (March 25). The land transaction was based on a government valuation of Rs 17,000 per ropani, with the total land value recorded at Rs 690,000. Revenue was paid accordingly, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>A staff member at the Dhankuta Land Revenue Office told Setopati, &#8220;The land with plot number 167 has been registered in his name. The records show he purchased it from landowner Junu Limbu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Land Revenue Office, the transaction was carried out based on the government valuation following a recommendation from Ward No. 6 of Sangurigadhi Rural Municipality. The ward office had recommended that the land lacked road access and was located off the main road.<\/p>\n<p>Yam Prasad Magar (Deepak), ward chair of Sangurigadhi-6, said he did not know who bought the land but issued the recommendation on Chaitra 11 (March 25) after the landowner requested it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, reports had already emerged that Gurung had purchased shares worth Rs 5.3 million in a company through secondary market transactions over a period of about 50 days, after the Gen Z movement and just five days before becoming Home Minister. Gurung was compelled to resign due to the property controversy. While resigning, he had stated that he stepped down to ensure a fair investigation into the matters raised against him. 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According to the Dhankuta Land Revenue Office, 19 ropani and 15 aana of land at Karkichhap in Sangurigadhi Rural Municipality-6 was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,160,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gurung Had Bought 20 Ropani of Land in Dhankuta Just Two Days Before Becoming Home Minister - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=15601\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gurung Had Bought 20 Ropani of Land in Dhankuta Just Two Days Before Becoming Home Minister - Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU \u2014 Sudhan Gurung, who resigned as minister on Wednesday following a property dispute, had purchased 20 ropani of land in Dhankuta just two days before his appointment as Home Minister, records have revealed. 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