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Kathmandu Tuesday May 22, 2001 Jestha 09, 2058.
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Purnagiri march team begins awakening
campaign
NEPALGUNJ, May 21(RSS)- The "Purnagiri March Campaign
Team" under the national awakening campaign organized by All Nepal Women’s
Association left for Purnagiri from Kohalpur, banke district today.
The Purnagiri march team had reached Kohalpur Sunday night
after passing through Narayanghat, Butwal and Lamahi on the way. The team is scheduled to
reach Purnagiri in Dadeldhura district on May 23 under the six-day march.
The march team, which in the beginning had started off with
only 90 members from Kathmandu, had some 500 members when it set out from Kohalpur after
more members joined the team on the way.
A press release issued by the association states that the
construction of the dam between the Purnagiri hill on the Indian side and the Kauwani hill
on the Nepali side at the Nepal-India border on the Mahakali river on the western side of
Dadeldhura district by the Indian government on the basis of the Mahakali treaty is not in
the interests of Nepal.
CPN-ML president Sahana Pradhan is leading the march from
Kohalpur. Earlier a rally taken out from the local Bageshwari multiple campus went around
the town and later converged into a mass gathering at local Kohalpur square.
Addressing the rally, Pradhan underscored the need for all
the political parties and individuals to remain on guard and be sensitive on issues of
nationalism.
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