Addressing the program, Nefin Chairman Rajkumar Lekhi said nationwide programs would be held to unmask those who were behind the conspiracy to dissolve the Constituent Assembly (CA) without promulgating a new constitution. [break]
A former CPN-UML leader Pasang Sherpa, who quit the party recently, said that they launched the campaign to inform people about why the CA was dissolved. "We will tell them that even Nepali Congress and CPN-UML stood with anti-federalism parties like Rastriya Janamorcha, Rastriya Prajatantra Party," Sherpa added.
Chairman of Newa Rastriya Mukti Morcha Pawan Shrestha stated that all indigenous people will move ahead together in future in order to ensure that their rights are guaranteed. "We will be more cautious in the coming days as we have been betrayed this time around," Shrestha added.
Similarly, another CPN-UML leader Ramchandra Jha maintained that they would teach lesson to their leadership by moving ahead together for the common cause of Madhesis, indigenous and other marginalized communities.
"If they (leadership) do not come out clear on our issues (identity-based federalism), we will not stay in the same party in future," Jha stated.
All indigenous leaders who addressed the gathering held the top leaders of major three parties responsible for dissolving the CA and accused them of being against the ides of empowering people from indigenous, Madhesi, and other marginalized communities.
Last week, a meeting of indigenous leaders had labeled Rastriya Janamorcha, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), RPP-Nepal, Nepal Workers and Peasants´ Party, Rastriya Janasakti Party as “anti-federalist” parties and termed Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML and their top leaders as "anti-identity-based federalists".
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