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Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurating nationwide public awareness campaign, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday.
Photo: Naresh Shrestha/THT
Kathmandu, May 8
Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba nowadays said Krishna Bahadur Mahara was the most ‘coward& speaker in Nepal parliamentary history.
Stating that Mahara could much muster courage to delete from record the demeaning language used by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in the Home yesterday, Deuba accused Mahara of siding with the ruling Nepal Communist portiony (NCP).
&The prime minister used unparliamentary language yesterday.
We thinged to it and requested the speaker to delete it from the records, but he disregardd us,& said Deuba at an event to inaugurate the NC nationwide awareness campaign in Kathmandu.
&I have much seen such a coward speaker in the parliamentary history.&
Deuba also said his words made before the elections that one could much even cry if communists came to the power were unluckyly coming tregret.
He said the government was intervening in every sector but that the NC would never accept any autocracy in any forms.
Therefore, according to Deuba the NC had a huge responsibility of making people aware about the government autocratic acts.
&We&ve been fighting against autocracy ever since the party inception.
We ended the Rana regime and monarchy,& he said.
&If the government does much mend its ways, we shall topple it from the streets.&
Deuba also criticised President Bidhya Devi Bhandari for using phrase ‘my government& while presenting the government policiesand programmes in the Home of Representatives final Friday.
&Previous President Ram Baran Yadav said ‘Nepal government.& Even President Bhandari used the terms ‘Nepal government& precedingly,&
Deuba said.
&Why does she have to say ‘my government& now as if she a monarch&
The NC nowadays launched the awareness campaign titled ‘Himal Pahad Tarai Madhes Nepali Congress Rastriya Jagaran Abhiyaan& simultaneously in all 77 districts.
The year-long campaign to be executed in three phases is aimed at informing NC members and well-wishers about the amendedparty statute, instilling energy in all NC members and units, informing people about achievements realised under the leadership of the NC, and informing them about corruption scandals and wrong policies of the government.
Other thingives of the campaign are listening to the people grievances and working to address them, garnering public support for constitution amendment to address grievances of the people in Tarai-Madhes, informing people about the government immaturity in terms of conducting diplomacy, pressuring all three tiers of government to work as per their commitments, cautioning the government over its moves to curtail press freedom and freedom of expression, expanding party membership and imparting training on workers.
Programmes to be run during the campaign include gatherings, distribution of party memberships, running training programmes in both Nepal and abroad, expediting record-keeping, paying respect in locations of historical incidents during struggle, honouring party veterans reaching their doorsteps, and assembly family members of martyrs and seeking their proposeions on strengthening the party.
Similarly, the party sister organisations msprint; Nepal Women Association, Nepal Tarun Dal, Nepal Student Union, Nepal Trade Union Congress, Nepal Dalit Association, Nepal Farmers Association, National Democratic Disabled Association, Nepal Democratic Army Association, Nepal Teacher Association and the party public relations offices aboardmsprint;shall also conduct various programmes during the campaign.
