Good morning! Here’s a quick summary of important, ignored and interesting stories from Sunday to kickstart your Monday.
Important
Impunity has become a part of the state system: Sharma
National Human Rights Commission chief Anup Raj Sharma has commented that the state system itself has been promoting anarchy in the country as it is a part of it. During a function organised in the capital on Sunday, Sharma delivered an aggressive speech, in which he criticised the government for failing to properly prosecute people involved in gross human rights cases. He also expressed his unhappiness over the government’s failure to settle all conflict-era issues related to transitional justice.
Baburam Bhattarai accuses PM of not taking any initiative to solve Kalapani dispute
Samajwadi Party federal council chairman Baburam Bhattarai has said Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has failed to take diplomatic initiatives to solve the recent border controversy with India. Though Oli frequently talks about nationalism in his speeches, he is submissive in front of India and other foreign power centres so as to save his state power, he claimed.
The former prime minister said the problem would not be solved from the bureaucratic level, hence Prime Minister Oli should directly talk to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
Mahato rules out unification with Samajwadi Party
Presidium coordinator of the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal, Rajendra Mahato, has ruled out the possibility of his party’s unification with the Samajwadi Party jointly led by Baburam Bhattarai and Upendra Yadav. He says the unification is immediately impossible as the other party recently decided not to leave the government.
Speaking with journalists in Siraha on Tuesday, Mahato also said his party could not support the government unless its demands about the constitution amendment and the withdrawal of ‘fake’ cases against its cadres were addressed.
Ignored
Activists launch Nepal’s ‘actual’ map
A group of activists, identifying itself as the Border Saving Campaign, has published a new map of Nepal, which the group claims to be the actual one. The map also includes the disputed region of Kalapani, which both Nepal and India are claiming, as a Nepali territory.
The group led by senior journalist Bhairav Risal says it would take the map to the grassroots as well as make efforts to internationalise it.
SDG resource corner at Singhadarbar
The Sustainable Development and Good Governance Committee of the National Assembly has established an ‘SDG resource corner’ at Singhadarbar, where interested people can learn about various issues of the SDGs. The United Nations Development Programme has funded the project.
National Assembly chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina inaugurated the corner at a function on Sunday.
Interesting
Lawmaker involved in vandalism says lawmakers are undervalued
RJPN lawmaker Pramod Sah, who was earlier accused of vandalising a Buddha Air counter at Janakpur Airport has commented that the public does not know how to respect and value the lawmakers. He claims he resorted to vandalism after the counter staffers did not treat him like a lawmaker.
Speaking at a meeting of the Industry, Commerce and Consumer Interest Committee in Kathmandu on Sunday, Sah accepted that he vandalised the counter as the way they treated made him angry.
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