Janajatis’ party to fight for ethnic autonomy

Kathmandu, February 3:

Janajati leaders associated with the Nepal Tamang Ghedung and other Janajati groups today formally announced the formation of Tamsaling-Nepal National Party (TNNP), though the party was already registered at the EC on October 9, 2007.

During a function organised to announce the formation of the party, Parshuram Tamang, president of the TNNP said the TNNP was formed to fight for ethnic and regional autonomy and for fully proportional election system and has been preparing to contest the polls.

“We believe in one Nepal with federal autonomous states of different ethnic groups,” said Tamang at the press conference. He said the TNNP aims to liberalise all the suppressed groups. “We will soon announce the members’ names of the 21-member

central committee along with the candidates for the CA polls,” he said.

One of the central committee members Chini Maya Majhi, however, said most of the central committee members were from the Tamang community and so far only nine of them have been selected. The party, according to its press release, said it would tie up with those forces who are against feudalism and imperialism and those fighting for loktantrik republic.