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Ex-minister joins Maoist party praising its work to uplift Dalits
Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:29
A former assistant-minister and Nepali Congress central member Hari
Shanker Pariyar has joined the Unified CPN (Maoist) party on Thursday.
Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal welcomed the former assistant
minister including former District Education Officer Bal Bahadur
Pariyar, former regional member of Nepal Peasants' and Workers' Party
Chakraman Biswokarma and UML's Lal Bahadur Pariyar and Kamal Raj
Luintel into the party in a ceremony organized at the party
headquarters, Paris Danda today.
Dahal assured the new entrants that they will be given
responsibilities as per their capabilities inside the party. He also
praised the sacrifice made by the Dalit community during the
insurgency period.
"However, the Dalit community have still not been liberated from the
age-old oppression and the struggle (to free them) is still on," Dahal
said.
Speaking at the ceremony, former minister Pariyar recounted the bitter
experiences of the discriminations he faced in the village even though
he was a chairman of the District Development Committee.
"Not only are we poor, we have to bear the stigma of being
untouchables too," he said, and reminded everyone that it was because
of the Maoists that for the first time in Nepal's history 50 Dalits
became members of the Constituent Assembly. nepalnews.com
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