GULMI: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Bimalendra Nidhi, has urged the CPN-UML not to lie to people and spread illusions, obstructing the Parliament.

"By obstructing the Parliament proceedings, the UML has obstructed all parliamentary, democratic and constitutional procedures. This tendency of obstructionism is nothing more than betraying the country, rather than protecting the national interests," he said while speaking in a condolence assembly here today.

The condolence meeting was organised on the 11th day of the demise of Gyan Bahadur KC, father of Chandra Bahadur KC, former President of the Nepali Congress Gulmi district committee.

DPM Nidhi, who is also the leader of the Nepali Congress, challenged the UML to give up obduracy and vote out the Constitution amendment bill.

Stating that delineation of the province borders does not mean splitting the province, he said splitting the province and demarcation of province borders were different issues.

He argued that the Constitution amendment proposal was in the interest of the people of Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, Palpa, Rolpa, Rukum and Pyuthan districts as it empowered them, rather than weakened. "There is no meaning in joining the UML in the protests

"There is no meaning in joining the UML in the protests in fancy," he suggested to the cadres of his party, calling on them to follow the party's decision in this regard.

Minister for Defence Bal Krishna Khand and Minister for Forest Soil Conservation Shankar Bhandari had also spoken at the function.

Nepali Congress Gulmi district president Bhuwan Prasad Shrestha, however, said the Constitution amendment proposal was against people's interests.