KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 30
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the government will provide best possible support for promotion of Gurung community's language, culture, and civilisation.
At a programme held here today on the occasion Tamu Lhoshar 2021, PM Deuba said that this festival would contribute to strengthen mutual cooperation, goodwill, and tolerance among the Gurung community and different religious and cultural groups.
The PM also expressed confidence that this festival would help glorify the civilisation and culture of the Gurung community and shed light on the country's socio-economic development played by this community.
The Gurung community is observing this festival with much fanfare by welcoming To Lho (Year of the Tiger) and bidding farewell to the Year of the Cow.
On the occasion, Deuba said that co-existence, mutual cooperation and tolerance and common traditional cultures and civilisation were the markers of Nepali identity and pride that had further strengthened our national unity and indivisibility.
Also speaking at the programme, Chairperson of Tamu Hyul Chhonj Dhin Gurung National Council Resham Gurung extended gratitude to the government for announcing a national holiday on this festival for the cause of promoting social goodwill.
Chairperson of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities Jagat Baral and others expressed their opinions on the occasion. During the programme, cultural shows were put up and different personalities were honoured for their contribution to the Gurung community.
A version of this article appears in the print on December 31, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
