Issues of landless people will be resolved in two years: PM

Kathmandu, Feb. 3

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed his confidence that the issues related to the landless people would be resolved within two years.

Addressing the National Meeting of the Nepal Landless Squatters Organisation on Wednesday in the capital, the Prime Minister stated that the country and people would not achieve prosperity without resolving the issues of the landless people.

“The government had built houses for those who do not have anything. Settlements at risks have been relocated to safer places. We have also launched a campaign to replace thatched roof with corrugated zinc,” he said.

According to him, the government work has experienced a progress after some leaders left the party and moved to a public shelter. The Land-related Issues Resolution Commission has been expanded to 77 districts and it will address all the challenges, he said.

Prime Minister Oli stated that although feudalism was eradicated in political form, there was a need for a continuous struggle to end the feudalism and backwardness in individual, behaviour and society.

According to him, the government had given attention to addressing the issues like hunger, poverty, illiteracy and landless since such challenges would pose obstacles to the prosperous Nepal.

Speaking at the programme, Chief Minister of Lumbini Province Shankar Pokharel said that the party had reached at the brink to split due to some leaders’ greed who wanted to hijack the party leadership.

He stated that registration of the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister of the same party and petition to the President were the ‘revolt against the party’.

“However, we continuously tried to save the party unity. We had urged Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to take back the proposal but he opted for the split,” he said.

Farmers’ leader Keshab Badal said that there were 1.3 million squatters and 765,000 landless people.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 4 February 2021.