KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli has said that the government was working towards fulfilling the dreams of martyrs.
Extending tributes toward known and unknown martyrs at the Lainchaur-based martyr’s memorial Friday, Prime Minister Oli said that martyrs’ sacrifice has made people empowered and contributed to institutionalizing democracy.
Likewise, the Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Bidya Sundar Shakya, said that the republic has become successful in Nepal due to the sacrifices of the martyrs.
Deputy Prime Minister Ishwor Pokharel, Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Lekhraj Bhatta, Minister of State for Urban Development, Rambir Manandhar, people’s representatives, high-officials of Government of Nepal, the Chief of Army Staff, Inspector General of Police, Inspector General of APF and the general public were present on the occasion.
Earlier this morning, a rally was organized from Ratna Park to Lainchaur accompanied by a musical band.
A contingent of the Nepal Army had offered a guard of honor to the martyrs.
Martyrs Day is observed commemorating the day when Shukra Raj Shastri, Dharma Bhakta Mathema, Ganga Lal Shrestha and Dasharath Chand, who fought for the establishment of democracy against the Rana autocracy, were given the death penalty in 1997 BS.
The Rana rulers had given the death penalty to Shastri at Kharibot of Teku, and Mathema at Sifal on Magh 10 and Chand at the bank of Bishnumati river and Shrestha at Shova Bhagawati on Magh 15.
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