CHITWAN, APRIL 6
CPN-Maoist Centre Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the ruling parties had already agreed to go for electoral alliance in the upcoming elections.
Addressing a programme organised in Chitwan to provide landownership documents to the landless and Dalits today, the CPN-MC chair said electoral alliance should be forged for the local, provincial, and federal elections to safeguard the constitution and the achievements gained through struggle. He said the incumbent coalition government of democratic forces formed by defeating regressive forces was proactive to address the concerns of the country and people.
Dahal reaffirmed the need for alliance and viewed nothing was impossible if the parties worked flexibly from their respective positions.
He also said that his party's long-fought struggle to ensure right to land to the landless community had materialised from Bharatpur of Chitwan today. He also recalled his journey to revolution in 1980 by raising the issues of landless people.
Also speaking at the event, Minister of Land Management, Cooperative and Poverty Alleviation Shashi Shrestha said the government would give continuity to its campaign to provide landownership documents to landless squatters, Dalits and other needy ones.
Minister Shrestha argued that no election would stop the government from giving landownership documents to the landless people, adding that the government was committed not to miss the landless people in this campaign.
Likewise, Mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City Renu Dahal said the commitment she made five years ago during the time of election was being fulfilled with the distribution of landownership documents to landless people.
"All 10,777 landless Dalits, landless squatters and residents in the unmanaged settlements will be given land ownership documents,"
Mayor Dahal vowed.
In the event, a total of 46 Dalit households from Aptari Devkota Chowk of Bharatpur Metropolitan City were given the landownership documents.
Chairperson of National Land Commission Keshav Niraula, Vice-chair Nahendra Khadka, Deputy Mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City Parbati Shah Thakuri, District Committee Chairperson of National Land Commission Badri Timilsina and others also committed to address the issues of landless citizens.
A version of this article appears in the print on April 7, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
