KAVRE: Minister for Local Development Purna Kumar Sherma Limbu today claimed that the present government was the national government of the nation. Addressing the 11th Annual General Meeting of the Shanti Janaadarsha Sewa Kendra in Dhulikhel, Limbu said, "The present government with its involvement of 22 parties, is the national government." "We will prove to the people that this government is the national government," he said.