‘Cooperate govt for early polls’

November 30, 2002
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KATHMANDU: Rajsabha Standing Committee Chairman Dr. Keshur Jung Rayamajhi, at a felicitation programme organised by the Pariyar Services Society here today, felicitated Minister for Women Children and Social Welfare Gore Bahadur Khapangi, Assistant Minister for Population and Environment Gopal Dahit and Assistant Minister for Land Reforms and Management Prakash Chitrakar.

On the occasion, Dr. Rayamajhi said that all the political parties and the civic societies should extend cooperation to the present government which has been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring law and order and holding elections as early as possible for the protection and promotion of the Constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy.

Referring to the prevalence of numerous problems of the Dalits and the indigenous people in the country, Dr. Rayamajhi pointed out the need for unity among the Dalits and the indigenous people for the protection and promotion of their rights and interests.

Minister Khapangi, one of the three persons felicitated at the programme, said that the oppressed, downtrodden and the indigenous people should be made capable of launching social and political movement and only there would always be commitment for the upliftment of the community that has remained backward for centuries.

Assistant Minister Dahit called upon every segment of the society to extend cooperation to the present government entrusted with the task of ensuring law and order and holding elections as soon as possible at a time when the country was suffering from violence and counter-violence.

Former MP Man Bahadur Bishwakarma, chairman of the National Dalit Commission Padma Singh Bishwakarma, academician Ramsharan Darnal and advisor Ganesh Pariyar also expressed their views at the programme chaired by society president Badri Prasad Budhathoki.