KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 26

CPN-UML Chairman and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli has appealed to one and all to extend support for the UML candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

At a programme organised here today to honour those injured and families of the martyrs of different political movements, Oli argued that UML's candidate should be voted for the sake of national interest.

'Presidential election is approaching. The voting should be for the nation. People also should support the UML candidate because the UML is for the cause of the nation, people, and national sovereignty. So, I urge voters to cast their votes for the UML candidate in the presidential election,' he said.

Senior leader of the Nepali Congress Ramchandra Paudel and UML Vice-chairman Subas Chandra Nembang have filed their candidacies for the presidential election slated for March 9.

Oli, however, bemoaned that his party was being chased away by national and international reactionaries. He viewed that the families of the victims, martyrs, and those disappeared and injured have not got justice after the movements and conflicts that took place under different pretexts. Oli has also asked the state to reveal the status of the missing ones and ensure relief to the victims. During the event, Bishwashara Dahal, Goma Devkota, Kamala Subedi, Shanti Pakhrin, Sarita Adhikari, Tirtha Gautam and Devi Sunar from the martyrs' families were honoured.

A version of this article appears in the print on February 27, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.