Organized by the Facebook group, Nepal Unites, which has been proactively staging events to engage and participate the youth in the country’s political conversation, about 100 people, some of them with brooms, were present. [break]
However, the brooms were only symbolic participants, with their noses and mouths covered with “Clean up Your Act” masks, hardly cleaned the mess in the area.
The event on Sunday coincided with World Environment Day, and some of the participants cycled from Durbar Marg to the CA building in New Baneshwor for the environment.
At the venue, most of the participants agreed that Nepal’s natural and political environment need to be cleaned up.
“The country’s environment is degrading day by day,” said Avishek Shrestha, President of Nepalese Youth for Climate Action who participated. And at New Baneshwor, the participants who wanted change ought to make a change in their own ways, from an individual level.
Prashant Singh, an environmental activist and one of the founders of Nepal Unites, said their intention was to weave the themes of environment and politics and get the message across so that both of them can be revived from the current state.“But this is just symbolic,” he said, adding, “We might just be a few here but we represent the sentiments of many.”
And as a mark of delivering their message to the CA members,Nepal Unites members also presented a broom to Sunil Babu Pant, a CA members who supports for the Facebook group.
“Trying to clean the mess outside of the CA building is an example,” he said. “I shall take this message [and broom] inside the CA. I hope this youthful spirit will also motivate and energize the 601 CA members.”
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