Tanahu (Damauli), Jan. 21: Minister for Water Resources Govinda Raj Joshi has called upon all to support the government in its campaign against anti-democracy and development elements harbouring instability in the country.

Initiating the formal opening of a campus at the Tribhuvan Higher Secondary School in Manechaur of Rupakot village development committee (VDC) here Thursday, Minister Joshi spoke of the need for the maximum utilisation of the budget released to the villages in local development works in order to address the problem of  rural-to- urban migration.

Minister of State for Labour Ram Bahadur Gurung said that violence and terror tactics cannot change  the political system in the country and the activities of the Maoists were directed against the entire development process of the country.

Assistant Minister for Tourism Narayan Singh Pun highlighted the important role education has in shaping the personality of the students, in the consolidation of democracy and national development.

At the programme presided over by chairman of the campus management committee Mr. Sundar Adhikari, mps Haribhakta Adhikari, Dil Bahadur Gharti, Nepali Congress central publicity department member-secretary Ramchandra Pokharel, Nepali Congress Tanahu district president Raghunath Poudel, Byasnagar municipality mayor Dhurba Wagle and others also expressed their views.