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Indigenous And Ethnic Nepalis Warn Of Nationwide Protest
By KTM Metro Reporter
February 4, 2011: Speaking at a press meet at Bhimdattanagar on Thursday, February 03, 2011, Chairperson of Federation of Nepalese Indigenous and Ethnic Groups (FNIEG) Raj Kumar Lekhi has said that FNIEG will launch a nationwide protest in the first week of Falgun (mid March 2011), if the government fails in meeting its demands for ending the discrimination against the indigenous and ethnic communities, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of February 4, 2011 writes.
Chairperson Lekhi has said that the indigenous and ethnic communities will hold a sit-in at the International Convention Building where the Constituent Assembly is housed for putting pressures on the 601 members of the Constituent Assembly. Participants in the protest will be coming from 38 district working committees, 53 different factions and 35 village committees. They will hold a sit-in at the Constituent Assembly demanding to end all forms of discrimination and persecution against the indigenous and ethnic communities, and to enjoy the constitutional rights.
The indigenous people have been the victims of the policy of the previous regime on exclusive governance, and have suffered various kinds of discriminations at the hands of the ruling class people for more than two hundred years. They have continued to suffer even after the abolition of the monarchy and declaration of Nepal a federal democratic republic because of the indifference attitudes of again the ruling class to eliminating such discriminations.
Chairperson Lekhi has said that the crafters of a new constitution of Nepal in other words the 601 members of the Constituent Assembly must ensure the rights, dignity and social security of deprived and marginalized communities in the new constitution.
