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Using Marty’s Day For A Rally In Kathmandu
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 30, 2013: President, Vice-President, Prime Minister and top leaders of different political parties paid tributes to both known and unknown martyrs for sacrificing their lives for the people.
On the final day of the Martyrs' Week, Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai paid tribute to both known and unknown martyrs at the Martyr Memorial Park in Lainchaur yesterday morning. Top-level government officials, security officers and a large number of common people were present on the occasion. Similarly, they paid tributes to martyrs at the places they had achieved martyrdom, martyr Shukra Raj Shastri at Teku, Dharma Bhakta Mathema at Sifal, Gangalal and Dasarath Chand at Shovabhagawati, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com. The Kathmandu Metropolis had held a martyrs' week starting on January 23.
Nine-opposition political parties including the NC and CPN-UML held a wreath-laying ceremony at the Sahidgate in Kathmandu to mark the anniversary of the four martyrs that had sacrificed their lives against the tyrannical Rana-Shah regime in 1942.
The opposition parties used the ceremony as a rally against the government rather than reminding the people how the martyrs had given their lives for democracy and human rights of the Nepalis in general. Opposition leaders have demanded the turnover of the power to them charging the government with corruption. If these political leaders were really sincere in what they had been saying and they themselves were not corrupt then they would have prepared evidences of corruption and submitted them to the Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and sent the corrupt leaders to jail as to the four NC leaders.
Majority of the children born in early 1940s would have been left illiterate and deprived if the four martyrs had not sacrificed their lives, and leader like Ganeshman Singh had not sacrificed his luxurious life for the sake for the human rights of the common folks. However, Nepalis again lost the gains made by the people’s movement and the sacrifices of their martyrs in 1960 because the NC attempted on institutionalizing corruption rather than democracy.
Leaders of nine political parties using the anniversary of martyrs yesterday have initiated the senseless protest movement going against the Interim Constitution of Nepal, and pretend to put pressure on the government for holding elections to a new CA whereas their real intention has been to drag on the promulgation of a constitution, as they have the phobia of Nepal becoming a federal state.
