KATHMANDU: Kirat Yele Sambat Study Cooperation Committee today urged the members of the Constituent Assembly to include their calendar in the list of nationally recognised calendar. At an interaction held today, intellectuals, however, expressed serious concern over the widening rifts between the different groups within the Kirat Community. Speaking at the program, the coordinator of the study team and litterateur Bairagi Kaila said, "The Yele calendar would bring different groups within the Kirat Community together and give them the identity if the calendar was accredited nationally." Meanwhile Professor Dinesh Raj Panta said that the calendar was named after the Kirat ruler Yelamber Hang. "But the exact date of the Kirat rule in the country is still unknown to historians," Panta a researcher of Kirat history, said, addding, "Not much has been done to unearth the history." Likewise, speakers urged the government to give heed to the voice of 1.5 million Kirat population in the country, who also demand that the ruler Yelamber Hang be declared a national hero. In yet another programme in the capital, the Kirat communities declared that they would celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of their religious guru Falgunanda Lingden. The decision to this effect was announced at a press meet in the capital today. The organisers said they would bring Kirats together to disseminate Lingden's philosophy of world peace. Kirat religion is the fourth largest by population in the country. A section of a highway from Damak to Panchthar in the east has been named after him.