KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress leader Bhimsen Das Pradhan has said people should be conscious for the protection of their religion.
Leader Shrestha said so while speaking in the ‘Co-dining Program and News Conference’ organized by Nepal Grihastha Dharma Sewa Sadan here today.
Stating that intrigues for religious conversion have increased of late, he spoke of the need of taking initiatives at the people’s level itself for stopping such trend.
“The country is at present in need of a leadership having knowledge on religion,” he said, adding that it was the responsibility of all to protect the religion that is in practice since ancient times.
Former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Rajaram Shrestha stressed that protection of the religion was the people’s responsibility. He said religion and culture helped us become disciplined and civilized.
Reporters Club Nepal’s president Rishi Dhamala said racial and caste-based discrimination should be abolished at the family level itself in order to declare the country as ‘untouchability-free’.
General Secretary of the World health Organization (WHO) Ganesh Neupane said the time has come to wage a struggle for the protection of religion and culture.
Sadan chairperson Tulasi Ram Pokharel said the Sadan established 10 years back is involved in assisting the helpless, underprivileged and the elderly as well as in social work.
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