I was offered millions to support federalism - C.B. KC

PALPA, SEP 16 - Chairman of Rastriya Janamorcha Party, Chitra Bahadur KC, claimed that he had been offered Rs.100 million to support federalism in the new constitution. He said he received death threats after he turned down the offer.

Speaking at a welcome and felicitation programme organised by Palpa district Chambers of Commerce on Monday, leader KC said, “I received death threats, murder attempts were made in some places, for campaigning against federalism. But I am not afraid of anyone.” He added that even the leaders of CPN-UML and NC did not allow him to raise the issues against federalism. He said even if he tried to take u

p the issue with UML leaders Jhala Nath Khanal and Madhav Kumar Nepal they refused to discuss the internal issues of federalism.

KC maintained that leaders, who claimed to be national leaders in the past, had suddenly turned into regional and ethnic leaders after the issue of federalism came to the fore. He was of the view that the country would not prosper economically or socially if federalism was adopted in the country.

KC arrived here in the district to inaugurate the seventh national assembly of Rastriya Janamorcha Party-aligned Akhil Nepal Janajati Sammelan. He claimed that the country had never desired federalism. “Nepali citizens have expressed the desire for decentralizing the centralised government system. They have not wished to disintegrate the country even now. The issue was only raised by leaders and foreign powers.”

Posted on: 2012-09-16 05:54 

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