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Kathmandu,Wednesday January 12, 2000 Paush 28th, 2056.
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National Unity Day observed
- By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, Jan 11
- Prominent personalities converged here to observe National Unity Day today called on the
youths across the country, regardless of their caste and creed, to unite so as to
consolidate democratic system in the country.
National Unity Day
which every year marks the birth anniversary of Nepal’s Founder King Prithvi Narayan
Shah the Great was observed all over the country with various programmes today.
Late King Shah,
who ruled the Kingdom of Gorkha in western Nepal during the second half of the 18th
century united the country’s dozens of small scattered states into one Kingdom. He
had said, “Nepal, sandwiched between two big neighbours, China and India (a yam
between two boulders), is a common garden where four castes and 36 sub-castes blosoom
forth”.
Speaking at a
National Unity Day programme organised here Tuesday by Matribhumi Sewak Sangh (Motherland
Servants’ Association), Minister for General Administration Siddha Raj Ojha stressed
that youths from Mechi to Mahakali zones, regardless of their caste and race, need to be
united for the betterment of democratic system.
Stating that
today’s youths have not been able to understand their duties and responsibilities,
the Associaiton’s youth member, Sanjay Shrestha blamed gurdians for “failing to
guide” their children properly.
Dr Rishi Ram
Shrestha and other prominent personalities expressed their views at the function chaired
by the Association chairman Bindhu Lal Shrestha.
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