KATHMANDU: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has proposed a religious circuit connecting Lumbini, Pashupatinath and Janakpur. He said religious tourism could be promoted by linking these major religious sites.

The former Prime Minister suggested that the world’s attention could be drawn if a circuit linking Hinduism and Buddhism could be developed, stressing the need of developing Janakpur, Pashupatinath and Lumbini as sites amalgamating knowledge and science.

Addressing the ‘National Luminary Sita Birth Anniversary Program’ organized jointly by Nepal Academy and the Mithila Academy here on Monday, Prachanda said that there is also a need of developing another ‘Shaktipeeth Circuit’ linking all the goddess shrines from Pathibhara in the east to Badimalika in the west.