DAMAULI, JANUARY 8

Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Krishna Kumar Shrestha has spoken of the need to end the unhealthy politics in development works.

At a programme organised by Nirmal Ranabhat Srijansil Samaj in Byas Municipality, Tanahun, district today, Minister Shrestha commented that the tendency to take undue credit for development works had led to unhealthy politics.

Shrestha pressed for creating enabling environment for cooperation and collaboration for development works. Stating that many development works were interrupted due to COV- ID-19, the minister called for collaboration and coordination among the political parties for development.

Reaffirming that he would fulfil his commitment, Shrestha said that he had seriously acknowledged the issue related to declaring late Nirmal Ranabhat a martyr. Also speaking at the programme, Ranabhat Samaj's former central chair Khadga Bahadur Ranabhat lamented that the Ranabhats, whose population stood at 1.5 million in the country, could not be enlisted among the castes and ethnicity in the country.

Likewise, the Samaj's Gandaki Province vice-chair Suraj Ranabhat and the Samaj's Chairperson Bal Bahadur Ranabhat, among others, demanded that late Nirmal Ranabhat be declared a martyr.

A one-storey multipurpose building has been built for the Nirmal Ranabhat Srijansil Samaj with financial assistance worth Rs 3.5 million from members of the Samaj, Rs one million allocated under Local Infrastructure Development Programme in positive intervention of Minister Shrestha and Rs 500,000 from Byas Municipality, it was shared.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 9, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.