32nd National Unity and Reconciliation Day being marked

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Kantipur Report KATHMANDU, Dec 31 2007 - The 32nd National Unity and Reconciliation Day is being celebrated on Monday.

The first elected Prime Minister and the NC founder leader late B P Koirala and his colleague late Ganesh Man Singh had returned to Nepal from exile in India with a policy of national reconciliation on December 30, 1976.

Nepali Congress, since then, has been celebrating the day as National Unity and Reconciliation Day.

Most of the democratic NC leaders were exiled in December 1960, after the then King Mahendra staged a coup by seizing democratic powers. The NC intensified their protests against tyrannical regime from India after their lives in Nepal became difficult. Leaders like BP Koirala and Ganesh Man Singh had returned to the country putting their lives at stake with the policy of unity and reconciliation.

Likewise, various sister wings of the NC are celebrating the 32nd National Unity and Reconciliation Day by organizing various programs across the nation.

On the occasion, the women wing of the NC is organising a tea reception in the capital. PM and the party president Girija Prasad Koirala is also scheduled to attend the program.

Meanwhile, Kathmandu Congress is celebrating the occasion at Sundarijal, where late BP Koirala was jailed.

Similarly, the student wing of NC is organising a conference at International Convention Center at New Baneshwar.

Issuing a press statement, NC senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba expressed a need of unity and reconciliation among the democratic powers for holding the Constituent Assembly polls and for lasting peace. Likewise, acting president Sushil Koirala appealed to all to move ahead taking into account the reconciliation and unity policy of late BP Koirala.

Posted on: 2007-12-31 02:15:03 (Server Time)