LISBON, PORTUGAL, Aug 13: Nepali Congress Spokesperson Biswo Prakash Sharma has stressed the need to chart out the future course by institutionalizing democracy and federalism.

Addressing the 10th annual general meeting of the Nepali Janasamparka Samiti Portugal on Monday, Spokesperson Sharma clarified that the main agenda of the NC was to institutionalize democracy and federalism.

He claimed that the country could make progress only through NC’s ideological line and parliamentary systems.

There is no way but to institutionalize the achievements yielded through a shared struggle and address the remaining issues through joint efforts. “Attainment of power through authoritarianism and the use of force is never accepted. It should be gradually transformed through the path of democracy”, he added.

Sharma underscored the need to cleanse the politics highlighting political transformation as a shared future course.

The communist party and the incumbent government should correct their ways to address the issues of Madhesh and indigenous nationalities and rebellion of the Netra Bikram Chand-led group, he suggested.

NC is eager to help the government to address the political issues propping up in the country, he said, urging the communist government to discharge its responsibility in a more honest manner.

Lauding the role of Non-Resident Nepalis in the making of the country, he said arrangement would be made to grant citizenship certificates to the Non-Resident Nepali across the globe as per the Nepal Constitution.

The notes from the foreign countries do work but why not the votes, he questioned. Sharma pledged that the NC would take initiative to equip NRNs with citizenship certificates bestowing franchise and property rights.

“We should feel proud to be a Nepali citizen. The emotional unity should be strengthened along with physical development and expansion”, he added.

Also speaking on the occasion, Nepal Tarun Dal’s general secretary Bhupendra Jung Shahi commented that the government was a failure from different dimensions. The program was chaired by Samiti President Binod Ghimire. RSS

KATHMANDU, Feb 4: Nepali Congress Spokesperson Bishwo Prakash Sharma has clarified that they are organizing nationwide protest in order to pressure the government to correct dozens of mistakes it has made.

“Although the incumbent government has corrected some mistakes, there are still many that need correction,” Sharma told Reporters’ Club Nepal.

The opposition party has decided to launch protest program across the country today, expressing dissatisfaction over various issues including government’s behavior towards Dr Govinda KC’s hunger strike, attempts to root out the hospitals established in the name of Girija Prasad Koirala and Sushil Koirala, government’s failure to arrest those involved in rape and murder of Nirmala Panta of Kanchanpur, bypassing the opposition party in constitution council meeting, failure to control price hike and corruption.

‘The protest programs will be silent. We will conduct activities like burning tires, Nepal or valley banda,” said Sharma.

“The government, without establishing consent with the opposition, forcefully endorsed the National Medical Education Bill. Why does not the government take action against the individuals accused in misappropriations of Rs 4.35 billion in procurement of two wide-body aircraft? Why was the Budhi Gandaki Hydroelectricity Project awarded to Chinese company? Where is the culprit of Nirmala rape and murder case?”

CHITWAN, Jan 2: Nepali Congress (NC) central committee member Bishow Prakash Sharma has said that BP’s ideology has emerged victorious though the NC was weaker arithmetically from the recently held elections.

At a talk program organized in Chitwan on Monday on the occasion of 42nd National Reconciliation Day, leader Sharma said that NC cadres should not be worried from the present elections results. He said the country should win though the NC’s poor performance in the polls.

Sharma was of the argument that social transformation and NC’s transformation was needed in the present time by enriching BP’s thoughts.

Also speaking at the same program, NC central committee member Badri Pandey said the nation should be developed through reconciliation as the political issues in the country were almost resolved.

State Minister for Education Sheshnath Adhikari, NC leaders Jit Narayan Shrestha, Sabitri Bogati Pathka, Tek Prasad Gurung, Krishna Lal Sapkota and others expressed their opinions on relevance of reconciliation policy in the present politics. RSS