Both the parties are being disrespectful of the Madhesi Kranti right now. Instead of coming together to form a Madhesi Alliance, they are on their way to splitting. All the Madhesi leaders must come together for the sake of the Madhesi people. Right now the nonviolent, democratic leaders are in some ways acting less responsibly than the Madhesi armed factions. It is time for all Madhesi leaders to bury their hatchets and help each other save face to forge a new unity not just inside their parties but also between parties for the sake of the Madhesi people.
Hridayesh Tripathy
He is a personal friend of mine. I have enormous respect for his political skills. He got himself elected MP when he was 32. Most of the first batch of the Sadbhavana MPs came along with him in 1991. He is easily one of the most visible figures in the long history of the Madhesi Movement. His place in history is secure.
But he has been unfair to Rajendra Mahto. Tripathy backed Badri Mandal instead of Rajendra Mahto for party president a few years back. If he had instead backed Mahto, the party might never have split. Mandal went ahead and expelled Tripathy. Mahto was by Tripathy's side when Tripathy, for the second time, decided to launch a new, break-away political party.
Rajendra Mahto stood by Tripathy at crucial moments, like when Gajendra Narayan Singh expelled Tripathy from the party, when Badri Mandal expelled Tripathy from the party, and especially after the king's coup when everyone ended up in the political wilderness.
Tripathy was born into a forward caste family. But he has worked hard to project Rameshwar Raya Yadav and Bharat Bimal Yadav as the public faces of the Madhesi Movement out of respect for backward caste sentiments. He is not exactly your prejudiced Babhan.
The caste politics is there in the Terai, just like it is there in the hills, just like it is there in India. It is a Hindu thing. But the forward backward equation as it plays out in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh can not be photocopied in the Terai. In Nepal, all Madhesis are backward.
Tripathy is a gifted, smart person who might understandably be frustrated that he is not the Minister from his party. But he has also made some of the mistakes that people high on intellectual intelligence and low on emotional intelligence make. At some level he has been disrespectful of some of the other leaders in his party. But these things can be patched up. When they could work together when the Madhesi people were sound asleep, why can't they work together now when the Madhesi people are finally awake?
For now, Tripathy must let go and make peace with the idea that Rajendra Mahto is Minister. Instead he should take back his resignation and agree to come back into the party's central committee. Both Bharat Bimal Yadav and Tripathy must become central committee members. Anandi Devi should retire. The party should change its name and claim its original name, simply Sadbhavana. I see the need to have a major role for some woman figure. Sarita Giri is more qualified than Anandi Devi.
As to who will become party president, let the convention decide. I think Rajendra Mahto will be a good choice to be the unanimous candidate for party president. Why not? And if that is not to be, let the democratic, electoral process decide. Let there be healthy, free competition.
Rajendra Mahto
Mahto is in the stronger position for now. He is Minister. Almost everybody inside the central committee is with him. He has the momentum for the party convention. He should move tactfully and help Hridayesh Tripathy and Bharat Bimal Yadav save face.
The party must stay intact. It should change its name. It should get itself a new president. A new unity has to be found among all leaders. There has to be much discussion around the election manifesto.
Both Tripathy and Mahto have to realize their opponents are outside the party, not inside.
Right now Mahto looks like is in a good position to become party president. After elections are over, there will be a need to elect the party's leader in the parliament. That too will have to be done through the democratic process. It could be Mahto, it could be Tripathy, who knows?
One scenario would be that Mahto gets to become party president as well as the party's leader in the parliament. And the party has won so many seats that both Mahto and Tripathy get cabinet portfolios. Perhaps the Sadbhavana will get more than two portfolios.
Tripathy never wanted to be party president. Being MP has always meant more to him than being a party bigwig.
Or these two old friends should come together and decide that Tripathy will support Mahto's bid for party president, and Mahto will later support Tripathy's bid to be the party's leader in the parliament. Or both could decide they want either Bharat Bimal Yadav or Sarita Giri to lead the party in the parliament.
The Madhesi people did the hard work during the Madhesi Kranti. If Rajendra Mahto and Hridayesh Tripathy can not do the easy work for some kind of a newfound party unity, the Madhesi people will look somewhere else for leadership. The Sadbhavana will continue to be the small party it is.
The better option is to bring firm unity inside the party, and work to create a Madhesi wave during November.
Upendra Yadav
He is a well educated, smart guy. The Madhesi Kranti gave birth to Upendra Yadav. The MJF is by now a large, but still a new party. A lot of work has to be done organizationally.
I also wanted completely proportional elections to the constituent assembly. But the perfect should not be allowed to become the enemy of the good. If we had completely proportional elections to the constituent assembly, we would not have had to create a Madhesi Alliance. But now we are forced to create a Madhesi Alliance.
You can't have a Madhesh state before the constituent assembly. That is what the assembly is for. It is for the assembly to create a Madhesh state or not. Poudel Bahun is a nobody.
And so I do believe Upendra Yadav has struck the best possible deal under the circumstances. Those who think the Madhesi Kranti can be enacted again are delusional. The Madhesi Kranti was bigger than the April Revolution. The November Election is going to be even bigger than the Madhesi Kranti.
We have to move away from the politics of Terai Band. The parties have to instead get down to doing organizational work. Expand your organization. Go to the people. The Terai should be permanently open. It is Madhesis who suffer from the regular Terai Bands. If the Madhesi businesses don't operate, they will be in a rather weak position during the polls. Let them operate, let them stay healthy. Let them make money. That way they are more helpful to the Madhesi Movement.
Yadav's mistake is not that he has cut a bad deal. It is not true that he has betrayed the Madhesi people. His mistake is that he has not been able to keep together some of his best comrades. He perhaps had no choice but to make a countermove and expel the four rebels. But he should perhaps work harder to explain himself to the Madhesi people, his fellow leaders, as well perhaps his former comrades. He should try and bring them back, if possible.
Yadav is in a strong position. He should help Bishwas save face if possible.
Kishor Kumar Bishwas
I don't doubt his commitment to the Madhesi people. But I am not sure he is being wise.
I am for completely proportional elections to the constituent assembly. But if it be a choice between having completely proportional elections to the constituent assembly and having an election on November 22, I would rather have the election. Electoral procedure is not the prime agenda of the Madhesi Movement.
As for the Dalits and Janajatis, we include them in the list of 240 we put out on behalf of the MJF for the proportional representation part.
Bishwas should take a step back. He should not break the party. Keeping the MJF united is more important than having completely proportional elections to the constituent assembly as far as the Madhesi Movement is concerned.
You play the cards you are dealt. You roll with the punches.
If he breaks the party, he will do what not even the enemies of the Madhesi people have been able to do so far. He will seriously disturb the Madhesi Movement.
Madhesi MPs
I don't get the impression the Madhesi MPs of the Pahadi parties are about to dissent and launch a new regional party as was talked about for a while. Otherwise Tripathy would not have been so interested in the internal politics of the Sadbhavana. He would have been with that new outfit.
The Nepali Congress, the UML and the Maoists are all for a federal democratic republic now. I can see why the Madhesi MPs don't feel as disenchanted as they used to. It is for them to decide.
Jwala, Goit
Both of them condemned the recent bomb blasts in Kathmandu. That looks good on them. These are political people.
Sadbhavana, MJF, Jwala, Goit
It is important that the Sadbhavana stays united, and I don't mean in a cosmetic way. I want to see both Mahto and Tripathy renew their old friendship, happily have tea with each other, stuff like that. The MJF must also stay intact. Yadav and Bishwas must come together like they were together during the Madhesi Kranti. The November Election is a bigger challenge than the Madhesi Kranti was. If they don't come together and stay together, I am going to doubt their commitment to the Madhesi cause.
The Sadbhavana is a small party. The MJF is a new party. Both are regional, Madhesi parties.
In the constituent assembly, there will be a Congress block, and there will be a left block. It is for the Sadbhavana and the MJF to make sure they together create a third social justice block inside that assembly. Neither the Congress nor the left block will have a majority on its own. That third block will hold the key to the next government in Nepal.
Millions of Madhesis performed during the Madhesi Kranti. Now it is for the less than 10 Madhesi leaders to perform and create a Madhesi Alliance.
They divide the 116 seats between the two for the direct elections. It could be 50-50, or it could be 40-60 in the MJF's favor, or even 35-65. I don't know. But both compete also with each other for the 240 seats for the proportional part. That will make sure both parties do the very best and work hard in all 116 constituencies.
As for Jwala and Goit, they should announce a ceasefire to make elections possible. In return the Madhesi Alliance gives them the Ek Madhesh, Ek Pradesh slogan for the election, and promises to hold respectful dialogue with them once the Madhesi Alliance gets into power after the polls.
No More Terai Band
It makes no sense. All armed and unarmed Madhesi groups must get behind the Madhesi Alliance. Terai Band does not hurt the Pahadi rulers. It only hurts fellow Madhesis. That has to stop.
In The News
No confidence motion against Anandi Devi Kantipur Right on the day it completed three months since unification, Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi Devi), was on the verge of a new split with 221 out of 503 representatives for a special general convention scheduled next week lodging a no confidence motion against Chairperson Anandi Devi Singh. ...... the Karna and Mahato faction has accused Singh of defaming the party through whimsical individual decisions, violating the decisions of the party's extensive central committee meeting and trying to disrupt the party's crucial general convention. ....... a fresh feud, pushing the non-political lady--forced to join politics after a virtual split in the party four years ago--into serious controversy. ........ senior leaders, including Bharat Bimal Yadav and Hridayesh Tripathi were left out of the list of representatives. Karna however said the accusation was false, saying, "Both of them have been selected as representatives." ...... Singh has charged Mahato of being involved in a number of financial irregularities while appointing general managers at Udaypur cement factory and Nepal Oil Corporation.
Pro-Hindu parties unite for monarchy Just three weeks ahead of the date set for filing nominations, scores of newly registered fringe political parties led by Hindu fundamentalists have been forging an alliance to contest the Constituent Assembly (CA) election with the common goal of safeguarding monarchy and reverting Nepal to a Hindu state. ...... at least 19 small and newly registered parties have formed a "Nepal Democratic Alliance" that will jointly contest the CA poll, Arun Subedi, chairman of Shiva Sena Nepal (SSN), told ....... in favor of constitutional monarchy, multi-party democracy and a Hindu kingdom ....... "The Gita, the Hindu mythological epic, is our election manifesto for contesting the poll. We have been distributing it to the people, adding a few points to it." ....... "By new Nepal, we envision the concept of a greater Nepal that includes Darjeeling, Sikkim, Kumau and Gadhawal as Nepali territory" ...... "Even if we secure only five seats in the CA we will not let other political parties abolish the monarchy and declare Nepal a secular state," he said, further adding, "We will immolate ourselves for the sake of constitutional monarchy and the Hindu kingdom." ....... Rastriya Janata Dal Nepal's Bharat Prasad Mahato said that his party has been doing internal homework to contest the election from 15 districts in the Tarai in order to ensure the rights of "other backward classes" through a federal democratic republic setup and a "single Hindi dialect in a single Madhesh."
No alternative to CA polls: PM
Prachanda asks Maoist cadres to gear up for agitation the other parties, including the coalition partners have already launched their electoral campaign.
Joint meeting of Congress taskforces ends inconclusively
Entrepreneurs’ strike enters second day in Janakpur to protest the Maoist “excesses” and the local administration’s inactiveness.
Shyam Sundar Gupta to replace minister Mahato in govt: NSP (A) Minister Mahato had claimed that all the central committee members except party Chairperson Singh and General Secretary Gupta were present at the meeting held at the party’s head office.
CA polls should not be deferred at any cost: UML Gen Secy Nepal flayed the Maoists for putting forth a 22-point condition for elections rather than gearing for the November 22 polls. .... Noting that the entire process of the Constituent Assembly elections in many countries had become futile due to lack of unity among the key players, he added that the eight parties must forger stronger unity after the elections.
MPRF, MMT strikes affect life in eastern, central Terai
CoAS Katawal briefs PM on army meet
NSP-A expels Mahato, three other leaders Himalayan Times At a press meet, party chairman Anandidevi Singh said the party has expelled senior vice-chairperson Laxman Lal Karna, vice-chairpersons Rajendra Mahato and Ram Narayan Yadav, as well as party secretary Anil Kumar Jha from the party membership for “working against the party’s spirit” on the basis of the party statute article 6.10 (Ga). “I expelled them according to the wishes of party activists,” Singh said. The party general-secretary Shyam Sundar Gupta accused them of working for “international and regressive forces” and he particularly charged Mahato of corruption. ....... Party spokesperson Sarita Giri earlier today had notified that a no-confidence motion has been filed against the party chairperson Singh and general-secretary Gupta has been expelled, citing the same article 6.10 (Ga). ...... The meeting of the NSP-A (of Mahato faction) held today decided that the special general convention of the party would be held on September 13 to 15 in Birgunj. The Singh faction has raised objection to the convention claiming that the preparatory panel had omitted many of the dedicated activists of the party. Senior vice-chairperson Karna is going to host the convention, while general-secretary Gupta claimed the convention would not take place because his faction has a majority of activists. However, Gupta made it clear that the party division would not take place.
“They’re immature” Nepali Times MJF leader Upendra Yadav defends the deal in a conversation with Prashant Jha. .... This is the best deal, the maximum achievement possible under the present situation. .... If the electoral system is changed now, it would not be possible to hold timely polls. As responsible political actors, we compromised to enable polls to take place. We have not given up on the demand and expressed a note of dissent. ..... This is not a split. ..... They have no direction and are confused. Some statements indicate they are willing to work with the Maoists. This is completely against MJF policy. ...... The entire country is in a fluid situation. There will be clarity only after the elections, both nationally and in Madhes. Yes, to solve the madhes problem, the government will need to bring other groups on board. This process of indirect contact has begun, including with armed groups. ...... We are a small party. The situation is constantly evolving and a few people have to manage everything– all the problems that come up. I met lots of people here, several issues came up. Now we have finally arrived at an accord.
“He’s a traitor” Kishore Biswas, public face of the MJF in Kathmandu, now leads the dissident faction of the party. He spoke to Prashant Jha about his decision to rebel. ..... His decision was undemocratic, regressive and went against the spirit of collective leadership. Where was the process of consultation? I am very unhappy. ...... We had three core demands – declaration of a republic; a full proportional representation based system; and an amendment in the constitution to incorporate the principle of regional autonomy with the right of self-determination. Upendra Yadav has betrayed madhes on all three issues. ....... the Maoists .... They have no moral credibility left. Didn’t they sign the interim constitution without these provisions? If the Maoists are really serious, they should quit the government and parliament and come on the streets. Then we can think of cooperating. .... We are keeping alive the non-violent thread of the Madhes struggle. Madhes has got too radicalised and the problem will not be solved by dealing with one person, or deploying strategies of divide and rule. If we had not split, then the sympathy of Madhesis would have been fully for armed action. We will now talk to the armed groups and try to bring them into the peaceful movement. Only a round table conference can lead to a solution. ....... Madhesis want elections more than anyone else. But there is no political environment right now. The government needs to give in on key demands; we need to engage with Goit and Jwala Singh. If elections are held without these steps, then it will be meaningless and will sow seeds for a longer conflict.
A missed opportunity Prashant Jha Nepali Times The Kathmandu-Madhesi political disconnect is worrying. A day after the government-MJF deal (above), the two leading English dailies reported that the tarai tangle was resolved. But events over the past week have shown that the accord has in fact led to further polarisation. ....... Given the shrinking MJF base, and the fact that people were in no mood for more agitation, Yadav decided to lap up the le
gitimacy the government gave him as the representative of the madhes movement. He felt the deal would portray him as a responsible leader and ensure that if polls were delayed, he would not be blamed. ....... form the basis for a ‘democratic’ alliance in the plains to defeat the leftist parties. ...... Sources in Baluwatar and MJF confirm that Yadav has been assured of financial and political support to help him win a minimum number of seats. Yadav, who is terrified of the Maoists, was also promised full security. ...... Some in Madhesi civil society give Yadav credit for attempting to break the deadlock and create a suitable environment for polls. ...... a fully PR electoral system, recognition of madhes as one unit, an immediate increase in madhesi presence in political positions and bureaucracy. ........ –communicating his strategy and decisions, and engaging with others–where he has been an abject failure. ...... Yadav has been in Kathmandu for more than two months. He signed the deal unilaterally without consulting his close advisers, and has done nothing since then to explain his reasons for the compromise. ........ With the government silent, district units of NC inert and angry with the party leadership for giving MJF more weight than it deserved, and Yadav still not out in madhes, there are few active proponents of the deal. Even those in civil society who are supportive do not want to be seen as apologists for a weak MJF and a leader addicted to Kathmandu power politics. ....... the Maoists sense a chance to regain lost ground in the terai. Their strategy is to dismiss the MJF deal, press for PR and round-table talks, and engage with select Madhesi groups for further agitation. ....... The vacuum also presents an opportunity for those who do not want a solution at all and wish to create instability. ...... The deal does not help address any of the fault-lines that exist in the tarai, between state and madhesis, among madhesi groups, between Maoists and madhesis, or between pahadis and madhesis.
Not In Our Name last Sunday’s murder of two schoolchildren and a woman in Kathmandu’s bombings. ..... “Such an act of terror and the targeting of unarmed people is not politics at all and we condemn it very much,” a furious and frustrated Surya Dev Ojha, Banke chairman of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum said. ..... Militant madhesi groups, including JTMM, were also critical, saying the bombs put a strain on the pro-madhesi movement. Even leaders Jwala Singh and Goit, whose cadres have been responsible for much of the violence, killings and abduction in the terai, stepped forward to condemn the attacks. ...... After the attacks, Madhesi leaders called for an emergency meeting organised by Madhesi Loktantrik Samaj, which has a strong network in the eastern terai from Morang to Parsa.
Kishunji breaks his silence; expresses displeasure at NC’s drive for republic NepalNews
MK Nepal urges Maoists to drop demands; says polls can't be put off any more Claiming that the Maoists still suffered from pangs of extremist communism, Nepal urged them to stop riding two horses.
Prachanda warns of ‘decisive movement’ from next week if 22 demands not met the movement will start from the village level and will soon spread across the nation
Janayatra flagged off from three districts
Separate strikes cripple life in Eastern Terai A disgruntled faction of the Madheshi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) enforced bandh (shutdown strike) in eastern Terai region Sunday even as the general strike called by another agitating Terai group named Madheshi Mukti Tigers (MMT) in central and eastern Terai was in its third day. .... Protesters led by expelled MJF leader Kishor Kumar Biswas ..... The dissident faction has also demanded announcement of 'federal autonomous Madheshi state' before the election to Constituent Assembly and adoption of proportional representation-based election system. The group has said it will continue with the strike until these demands are met.
Nepal's Tricky Transition
NSP convention postponed Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) chairperson Anandidevi Singh has decided to postpone the convention scheduled to begin from coming Thursday in Birgunj saying that there were “inconsistencies” while selecting representatives for the convention. She also accused a nexus between vice chairman Laxman Lal Karna and Commerce Minister Rajendra Mahato of deliberately trying to sideline leaders who fought for democracy. Mahato and his supporters, however, have vowed they would hold the convention on schedule in Birgunj under all circumstances. They are of the assertion that chairperson Singh doesn’t have the authority to postpone the convention as it was her personal decision and that it can in no way be accepted as a party decision. Mahato and his supporters in the party held an emergency meeting of the party’s Central Work Performance Committee (CWPC) without chairperson Singh Saturday and decided to hold the convention on schedule in Birgunj and also table a no confidence motion against Singh at the first meeting of the convention.
Rana roots for timely polls
PM under manifold tension Kantipur Irked by Minister Mahato's decision to remove Udaypur Cement Factory's chief executive Tara Kant Jha, a group of party leaders including Gupta and Jha had brought Singh to Baluwatar to remind Koirala about Singh's previous request to PM to recall Mahato from office.
8 parties can share poll platform: Sitaula Sitaula said the parties should try to come up with a single stance while addressing the 22-point proposal put forth by the Maoists ..... Sitaula said that none of the NC central members could run against the current. He was hinting at NC central member Sujata Koirala's argument in favor of a minor king during the party's meeting on Wednesday.
We welcome NC move over republic: Minister Mahara
NSP- Ananda Devi wants Gupta in Minister Mahato’s post A NSP team led by the party President Ananda Devi Singh, Hrideyesh Tripathi and Shyam Sundar Gupta called on the PM to request him to appoint Gupta to the post of Minister Mahota
CPB-Maoist asks UN, US, Nepal not to start refugee resettlement
People at final turn to victory in battle against monarchy: Home Minister
Entrepreneurs call indefinite strike in Janakpur to protest YCL excesses the local administration had remained a mute spectator when the YCL cadres thrashed two entrepreneurs including 88-year-old Shekh Hamdula.
Sujata says she’ll never again support monarchy She had argued that the country needed a constitutional monarchy to counter the “threats” posed by the Maoists. .... On Sunday’s serial blasts in Kathmandu, Koirala said, “I think that the Maoists were behind Sunday's triple blasts in the capital.”
महतोलाई हटाउन दबाब सद्भावनाको २०६३ पुस १९ गते केन्द्रीय कार्यसमितिको निर्णय संख्या ५ अनुसार अन्तरिम सांसद र अन्तरिम मन्त्रिपरिषद्को प्रतिनिधित्व गर्ने अधिकार राष्ट्रिय अध्यक्षमा निहित छ । यसअन्तर्गत हृदयेश त्रिपाठी, राजेन्द्र महतो मन्त्री भएको स्रोतले जनायो । यसैबीच हालै सम्पन्न चारदिने विस्तारित बैठकले सद्भावनाको तीनदिने महाधिवेशन भदौ २७ गतेदेखि वीरगन्जमा हुने निर्णय भइसकेको छ । सद्भावनाले महाधिवेशन सम्पन्न गराउने जिम्मेवारी राष्ट्रिय कार्यसम्पादन समितिलाई प्रदान गरेको छ । 'पार्टी विधानअनुसार उहाँले लेखेर दिँदा पनि केही हँदैन,' महतो निकट स्रोतले भन्यो- 'उहाँको शक्ति कार्यसम्पादन समितिमा गइसकेको छ, कार्यसम्पादनले महाधिवेशन गर्नेछ ।'
सबै दललाई समान व्यवहार होस्’ गृहमन्त्री कृष्णप्रसाद सिटौला प्रमुख अतिथि रहेको कार्यक्रममा साना दलका प्रतिनिधिहरूले गृहप्रशासन हातमा भएकाले कांग्रेसको पक्षमा शक्ति परिचालन हुनेसक्ने आशंका व्यक्त गर्दै निर्वाचनको निष्पक्षतामाथि प्रश्न उठाएपछि उप्रेतीले सुरक्षा प्रमुखहरूलाई त्यस्तो चेतावनी दिएका हुन् । ..... 'साझा हुन नसकेका विषयलाई प्रत्येक दलले आ-आफ्नै ढंगले अघि बढाऔं ।'
विद्रोहीसँग वार्ता गर्न माग राजविराज, भदौ २१ - चुनावका लागि तराईमा सशस्त्र संघर्षरत विद्रोही समूहलाई वार्तामा ल्याई शान्ति सुरक्ष्ााको स्थिति सुदृढ बनाउन राजनीतिक दल र नागरिक समाजले विशेष संसदीय समितिमार्फत सरकारसँग माग गरेको छ । ..... नेताहरूले शान्ति सुरक्ष्ााको बिग्रँदो अवस्था र विद्रोही पक्ष्ाको संघर्षका कारण दलहरू गाउँ जाने अवस्था नरहेको बताए । ...... उनीहरूले विद्रोही पक्ष्ासँग तत्काल वार्ता गरी समस्याको समाधान गरी सुरक्ष्ााको मौजुदा अवस्थामा सुधार ल्याए मात्र तराईमा निर्वाचन सम्भव हुने सुझाव दिएका थिए । ...... अन्तर्त्रिmयामा नेताहरूले सुरक्ष्ााका कारण आफूहरू चुनावी अभियान लिएर गाउँ जान नसकेको दुःखेसो समितिसमक्ष राखेका थिए ।
चुनावका लागि दलित घोषणापत्र जारी संविधानसभाबाट जातीय भेदभाव र छुवाछूत अन्त्यका लागि पूर्वाञ्चलका क्रियाशील दलित अगुवाको भेलाले बिहीबार धरानमा १८ बुँदे धरान घोषणापत्र जारी गरेको छ । उनीहरूले राजनीतिक प्रतिनिधित्व सुरक्षित गर्न छुट्टै आरक्षित दलित निर्वाचन क्षेत्रको व्यवस्था गर्न माग गरेका छन् । ...... पूर्वाञ्चलका अगुवा दलितको भेलाले दलित समुदायको २० प्रतिशत जनसंख्यालाई आधार मानेर समानुपातिक निर्वाचन प्रणाली व्यवस्था गर्न माग गरेको छ । ...... भेलाले पूर्वाञ्चलमा रहेको विद्यमान बालिघरे प्रथा, सिनो प्रथा, दाइजो प्रथाजस्ता कुप्रथाको अन्त्य गरी उनीहरूलाई वैकल्पिक रोजगारी व्यवस्था गर्नुपर्ने र भूमिहीन दलितको आर्थिक आत्मनिर्भरताका लागि क्रान्तिकारी भूमिसुधार लागू गर्न माग गरेको छ । ....... दलितहरूमा विद्यमान रहेको बालविवाह, बहुविवाह, अनमेल विवाह र विवाहका कारणबाट गरिने यौन शोषणलगायत सबैखाले हिंसा र विभेदको अन्त्य गर्न अन्तर्जातीय विवाहलाई प्रोत्साहन र संरक्षण गर्न प्रभावकारी कानुन बनाउनुपर्नेमा भेलाले जोड दिएको छ ।
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नेपालका आदिवासी बाहुन-क्षेत्री मोदनाथ प्रश्रति ...... ऋग्वेद सबभन्दा प्राचीन मानव रचित ग्रन्थ हो । त्यसको प्रथम मण्डलको चौहत्तरौं सूक्तदेखि छयासी सूक्तसम्मका १ सय २० ऋचाका स्रष्टा राहूगण गौतम ऋषि मानिएका छन् । त्यसपछि सतासीदेखि त्रियानब्बे सूक्तसम्मका ८४ ऋचा राहूगणपुत्र गौतम ऋषिका भनी उल्लेखित छन् । यी दुवै ब्राह्मण ऋषि नेपालको मिथिला -जनकपुर) का बासिन्दा भएको निम्न सन्दर्भले प्रमाणित गर्छन् । ........ ऋग्वेदका उपर्युक्त १ सय २० मध्ये अधिकांश ऋचा ब्रह्माणमा वशिष्ठसँग टक्कर लिएर आएका युवा पुरोहित राहूगण गौतमले मिथिला भूमिमै रचेको र उनका छोराका ८४ ऋचा पनि यहीँ रचिएको स्वतः प्रष्ट हुन्छ । प्राचीन मिथिलामा दुई राज्य थिए । उत्तर-पूर्वतिरको माथिल्लो मिथिलालाई 'विदेह' र पछि 'तिरहुत' पनि भनिन्थ्यो । यही भाग विदेहवंशी जनकहरूको गणराज्य थियो । दक्ष्ािण-पश्चिमतिरको गंगानदी नजिकको मिथिला खण्डलाई वैशाली भनिन्थ्यो र त्यहाँ लिच्छविको गणराज्य थियो । ....... मिथिलाको स्थापना ईपू २००० तिर भएको थियो .... मिथिको बीस पुस्तापछि ईपू १६०० तिर रामायणकाल आएको धेरैको निष्कर्ष छ ..... त्यसरी यदुवंशी ग्वालाले काठमाडौं उपत्यकामा पशुपालन गरी गणराज्य चलाएको, पशुपति लिङ्गको पुनरुद्धार गरेको पनि तीन हजार वर्ष नाघिसकेको छ । शाक्य, लिच्छवि, मल्ल नेपाल उक्लेको पच्चीस सय वर्ष भइसकेको छ । लिच्छविले नेपाल राज्यलाई कोसी-कणर्ाली पुर्याएको पनि सोह्र सय वर्ष बितिसकेको छ । ...... ईसापूर्वका सात सय वर्ष नेपालको किराँती गणराज्यका रूपमा विख्यात छन् ..... हिमाली क्ष्ाेत्रदेखि तराईको थारू क्ष्ाेत्रसम्म फैलिएका किराँत-मंगोलवंशी चार/पाँच हजार वर्षदेखि निरन्तर यहाँ छन् । उत्तरबाट आउने मंगोलमूलका कतिपय जाति यता आएको पाँच/सात सय या एक/डेढसय वर्ष भएको छ । ....... यी सम्पूर्ण सन्दर्भतिर ध्यान दिँदा जनजातिका रूपमा चिनिने किराँत, मंगोल, आष्ट्रिक, द्रविड समुदायका नाम अगाडि मात्र आदिवासी विशेषण लगाउने र त्यतिनै पुराना विभिन्न आर्य शाखाका वैदिक, खस, शाक्य, लिच्छवि, मल्ल आदि र तिनीहरू भित्रकै दर्जी, विश्वकर्मा, ताम्रकार, सुनार, चर्मकार आदिको प्राचीन इतिहासतिर ध्यानै नदिई भर्खरै आएका बाहिरिया जस्तो ठान्ने सतही सोच र प्रवृत्तिलाई कुन रूपमा लिने ?
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