KATHMANDU – Senior activist and leaders of the indigenous nationality movement in Nepal have decided to open a new party to secure ethnic federalism in the new constitution.
The national conference of indigenous nationality community members in Kathmandu took the decision to the effect claiming that leading political parties including the Maoist, Nepali Congress and UML was dominated by anti-federalist ideological thoughts.
Concluding that the ethnic federalism could not be institutionalized without a new political forces explicitly fighting for the rights of indigenous nationality groups and other oppressed sections of the community, the conclave endorsed the NEFIN chairman Raj Kumar Lekhi’s proposal to form a new political forces.
The new party will comprise of leaders and members belonging to indigenous, nationalities, muslim, dalits, and other oppressed community members presently affiliated to various political parties.
The meeting was attended by Dr. Chaitanya Subba, Dr. Krishna Subba, Dr Om Gurung, Balkrishna Mabuhang, Parshuram Tamang, and former NC lawmaker Indra Bahadur Gurung among others.
– RSS
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