Kathmandu, June 28: On the auspicious occasion of the 30th Birth Anniversary of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, various Kathmandu-based organisations organised a talk programme here this afternoon.
Speakers of the talk programme offered their best wishes for the peace, prosperity, good health and long life of the Crown Prince. They threw light on the importance of Monarchy in Nepal and their contribution to the country’s all round development.
The speakers, while highlighting the dynamic personality of HRH Crown Prince, said that the Crown Prince was always anxious about the progress and prosperity of the country and the people.
“The credit of the successful completion of the South Asian Federation Games held in Kathmandu last goes to the Crown Prince who inspired Nepalese athletes to place Nepal in the second position,” said former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, chief guest of the function chaired by former Inspector General of Police Moti Lal Bohara.
“When I got several opportunities to have audience of the Crown Prince during my tenure in the cabinet, I found the Crown Prince dynamic, intelligent and co-operative,” he said. “Monarchy, the symbol of unity in the country, always provided security to people and made tremendous contribution to the consolidation of democracy.”
Deuba gave away prizes to the winners of school level speech contest organised to mark the Crown Prince’s Birthday.
Bindu Adhikari of V. S. Niketan School and Jyotsana Joshi of English Preparatory School bagged the first and the second prizes respectively while Rama Humagain of Gyan Kunja School and Suraj Dahal of EPS were awarded the third prize. Similarly, Soviat Man Baniya of EPS was given special prize for the lively portraits he painted of His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen.
Professor Dr Durga Prasad Bhandari said that people has a deep rooted faith in Monarchy, adding that Nepal’s identity was based on the present Shah Dynasty that with Great King Prithvi Narayan Shah who unified the Kingdom out of various petty states more than 200 years back.
Stating that the Crown Prince is peaceful, active and anxious of the country’s all round development, Dr Bhandari said, “The Crown Prince is moving ahead towards progress.”
Nepal National Committee of Bishwa Hindu Federation President Narayan Prasad Pokharel said that honouring the Monarch merely on the birth anniversaries would be inadequate. “The Monarch, who according to Hindu religious belief is the incarnation of Lord Bishnu, should be worshipped everyday.”
Poet Daibagyna Raj Neupane said that the Crown Prince, among other things, also bears literary personality and has written several poems, essays and travelogues under the pen-name ‘Dipendra Shah’.
Former Parliamentarian Golchhe Sarki and tourism entrepreneur Ambika Shrestha also expressed their views on the contribution of the Monarchy to Nepal’s development.