BARDIYA TO BE MADE A MODEL DISTRICT

BARDIYA, Nov 5: Minister for Land Reform and Management, Gopal Dahit, has said that Nepal would be made a prosperous country of Asia and Bardiya would be made a model district within 10 years if the Nepali Congress leads the government after the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies.

At a program organized by Press Club of Nepal at Rajapur Municipality-2 on Sunday, Minister Dahit clarified that the country would be made prosperous from every aspect including education, roads, employment, business and health. Leader Dahit is contesting the upcoming parliamentary election from Bardiya constituency-2.

Expressing the view that the upcoming elections are linked with institutional development of democracy, prosperity, freedom and sustainable peace, he said that fundamental rights of all including poor- rich people, farmers- laborers, employees-teachers and businessmen-intellectuals would be protect and there would be self-respect only if the democratic forces win the elections.

Similarly, NC candidates to the election of State Assembly, Nachuram Tharu, proportional candidate to the House of Representatives, Malati Sodari, NC Bardiya Joint-Secretary, Premlal Tharu, among others requested all to make the NC victorious in the elections to empower youths, students, women, freed kamaiya, landless squatters and to save the democracy. RSS

CHITWAN, Nov 5: The CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday said Bandarmude attack was a grave mistake committed by the Maoist during the 10-year insurgency. He also said he then directed action against the guilty in the incident, and the culpable have already been punished.

He was inaugurating the Diwakar-Tirtha Kumar Bhusal Memorial Free Volleyball Competition in Chitwan. Madi lies in within the locality of Chitwan constituency-3, where Dahal has registered his nomination for the House of Representatives elections.

Dahal further said that the next government would address the demands of the Bandarmude victims.

At least 38 people were killed, and 75 others injured when the then Maoist rebels ambushed an overcrowded bus in Bandarmude in Madi, Chitwan, on June 6, 2005.

Dahal had started his full-time politics from Madi. This is the second time that Dahal reached Madi in particular ahead of the polls after February 28, 2013 when he got there to inaugurate the Madi festival. He then had announced to provide a lump sum of Rs 6 million to each victim’s family.

Anyone found guilty of the incident by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons would face action, he said, while admitting that some of the victims are yet to get justice due to the issue of an amendment to the commissions’ acts.

He also said the next government would build overhead bridge or a tunnel way for the locals to travel through the Chitwan National Park, saying the locals are facing problems due to the park.

Likewise on the occasion, CPN-UML standing committee member Surendra Prasad Pandey expressed hope that the next government would become stable, and bring prosperity to the country. Other speakers like the Maoist Centre leader Amik Sherchan also spoke at the event.