Former PM Bhattarai Urges Knowledge Transfer for Economic Development

Kathmandu. Former Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has stated that the older generation should help transfer their knowledge, experience, and skills to the new generation for the country's economic development and prosperity. He said this while speaking at a book launch event held in Kathmandu on Monday. He emphasized the need to connect and utilize the experience of the older generation with the science and technology-based knowledge and skills of the new generation, along with the country's resources. Dr. Bhattarai mentioned that some people have been questioning his proximity to the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), stating that he is helping the new generation to realize the agenda of development and prosperity that he has been advocating for five decades. He said that everyone should rise above party interests to help the new generation achieve development and prosperity in the country. Speaking at the program, he said, 'Some people have been asking what he is looking for with RSP. I am looking for what I have been saying for the last 50 years. Development and prosperity must be brought now. Our generation should help them. We should transfer our knowledge and skills, and based on the knowledge and skills they have in technology, we should properly utilize the available resources and means in the country to make the country prosperous. And we should also help without saying this party or that party, without any excuse. Parties are organizations created for the struggle for political rights and rights in the past. In the age of science and technology, will that weapon work? Therefore, the new generation is coming forward with new weapons, and only by helping them will development and prosperity come to the country.' Former Prime Minister Bhattarai also claimed that old political organizations established for the struggle for political rights and systems are no longer useful in the current era of science and technology.