Kathmandu, Sept. 23
Incumbent
Vice-President of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) Rabina Thapa has
announced her candidacy for the President of the organisation's International
Coordination Committee.
She has opened
the season for candidacy announcement along with the aspirants for the post of
Vice-President and General Secretary of the NRNA.
Thapa's team
includes Jaya Prakash Gurung and Binaya Adhikary, candidates for the posts of
VP and GS respectively.
They announced
their candidacy at a programme organised in the Capital on Thursday and
published their election agenda.
The NRNA
international conference is slated for October 13-15 in Kathmandu.
Thapa said that
her main agenda was to give priority to the citizenship issue to implement the
theme 'Once a Nepali, always a Nepali'.
"In absence
of citizenship, many NRNs are losing their parental properties back in Nepal.
Therefore, I have given priority to this issue," she said.
Likewise, she
stated that she would initiate a process to make the NRNA election a direct one.
"To ensure the voting rights of Nepalis in foreign land in the elections
in their home country and resolve the issues in foreign employment, you should
elect me to the leadership," she said to the NRNs.
Thapa currently
resides in Maryland in the United States of America.
VP candidate
Gurung said that his agenda was to establish the rights of the ex-Gorkha Army
who had served the United Kingdom. "There is a kind of syndicate in the
NRNA and I have decided to announce my candidacy to break it," he said.
Similarly, GS
candidate Adhikary’s agenda included implementing direct election system in the
NRNA, promoting investment in Nepal, removing the hurdles in inheriting the
parental properties in Nepal and forming an expert committee to expand the
lobbying capacity of the NRNA.
Established 18
years ago, the NRNA is a non-government global organisation and network of people
of Nepali origin in 82 countries.
The government
of Nepal has given legal status to Nepali diaspora with the promulgation of
Non-Resident Nepali Act, 2007. Nepali citizens living outside the South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries or people of
Nepali origin holding foreign nationality other than SAARC nations are
considered as NRNs.
Recently, NRNA
has established a development fund worth Rs. 10 billion to support in Nepal's
development. It has supported rebuilding the Laprak settlement which was
devastated by the 2015 Earthquake.
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