Kathmandu, October 1
Ruling Nepal Communist Party’s incharge for Sudurpashchim province, Bhim Rawal, says the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, has also agreed to name Godawari of Kailali district as the provincial capital.
Amidst the opposition protest, the Provincial Assembly last week had decided to name the province Sudurpashchim and Godawari as the capital. Locals of Dhangadhi had also launched a protest against the decision, and the main opposition had extended its solidarity.
But Rawal says the party protested the decision only in defence of its President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
“The party tried to defend the decision of naming Dhangadhi as the provisional capital made by the Deuba government,” Rawal tells Onlinekhabar after the NCP’s provincial committee meeting today, “Otherwise, we proposed the capital with the consent of Congress.”
Rawal also claims the place proposed for the capital is not a habitat of wildlife.
