Opposition Leader Angdembe Calls for Bidding Farewell to Authoritarianism and Corruption

Kathmandu. Chief opposition party Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader Bhishma Raj Angdembe has said that authoritarian thinking, anti-democratic tendencies, oppression, injustice, and corruption must be bid farewell forever from Nepali politics.

Issuing a message of goodwill on the occasion of Saune Sankranti and Sise:kpa Tangnam, celebrated by the Limbu community, on Friday, he said, 'Just as we bid farewell to diseases and inauspiciousness by discarding boils on Saune Sankranti, we must now bid farewell to anti-democratic tendencies, oppression, injustice, corruption, and authoritarian thinking forever.'

Angdembe claimed that autocratic governance tendencies are increasing in the country, expressing concern over the interference in citizens' rights and the growing tendency to suppress the voices of the helpless and poor.

He emphasized that the people should be at the center of democracy and should be accepted as the center of state power, not as subjects of governance.

'May Saune Sankranti and Sise:kpa Tangnam festivals also be a day of commitment to establishing the democratic principle that the people are the source of sovereignty in practice, and to building a constitution, rule of law, social justice, and a prosperous Nepal,' he said.

Angdembe also mentioned that festivals like Saune Sankranti, Sise:kpa Tangnam convey messages of respect for nature, the value of labor, coexistence, and prosperity.