by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 21, 2023On December 16, 2001, Sita Ram Tharu was sitting in a tea stall near his house in Manpur village in Bardiya district when a group of security personnel arrested him accusing him of being a Maoist. Dozens of security personnel in combat fatigues with faces covered by bandanas took him away assuring his family that he would be brought back home after a brief inquiry. Twenty-two…
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by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 21, 2023On Thursday, the third day of the Nepali Congress’s Central Working Committee meeting, leaders came down heavily on the leadership, accusing it of failing the party on various fronts. Leaders speaking at the meeting said that the party’s top brass has failed to instil in the Congress rank and file a sense that the party was in government. They accused that despite being the largest…