Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has called one and all to devote to nation-building by ending all sorts of discrimination.
The discrimination meted out against the Dalit community must be ended in practice, PM Deuba said while addressing a programme organized by the Inter-Party Dalit Women Network, and Dalit Women Centre on the occasion of the 17th National Day of the Elimination of Caste Discrimination in the federal capital today.
Discrimination against Dalits is against social justice, he stressed. “Caste discrimination is inhuman, immoral and criminal activity. It is a shared responsibility of all to make a civilized society by ending all sorts of discrimination and implementing laws effectively,” he said, reminding us that issues against caste discrimination and untouchability had emerged in Nepal for seven decades.
The PM also reminded us that Nepal was declared an untouchability-free country and Dalits’ rights were mentioned in the constitution in 2063BS while the National Dalit Commission was set up in 2058BS with the resolution to end untouchability. He claimed that the movement launched by the Dalit community helped the government in making relevant policies and laws.
PM Deuba further said caste discrimination and untouchability are social blots. Every citizen must be ensured equal rights to live a dignified life, PM Deuba emphasized.
According to him, the government was committed to ending the situation that which Dalit people lose their lives in their campaigns.
Today itself, the making of a film ‘Sarbajeet’ based on the life of the trailblazer of the Dalit movement, Bhagat Sarbajeet Bishwokarma, has begun in the federal capital. On the occasion, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Prem Ale expressed commitment to provide his five months’ remuneration for making the film ‘Sarbajeet’. (RSS),
