BHAKTAPUR: CPN-UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel has said that spreading hatred against party chairman KP Sharma Oli is against Nepal’s cultural values.
Speaking at a UML program in Gundu, Bhaktapur, on Thursday, Pokharel argued that the recent rise of hostility in politics reflects a departure from Nepal’s own traditions of reconciliation and tolerance.
“During the time of conflict, when there were human casualties, has any prime minister ever been punished?” Pokharel asked. He reminded that even after the anti-Rana movement, Mohan Shumsher, who had been prime minister during the Rana regime, was later appointed head of the interim government.
“That was the Nepali society we inherited, one that could forgive and move forward,” he said.
Pokharel questioned whether the current politics of hatred truly represent Nepali values, noting that even after the end of the Panchayat system, leaders from that era worked together with political party representatives to form governments.
He also criticized the government led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki for adopting policies under the home minister’s direction that, he said, contradict Nepal’s traditions. “Such practices do not belong to Nepal’s own culture,” he added.
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