Chitwan, October 3
Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa has vowed to launch a campaign to fight rising cases of violence against women. Speaking at programme in Biratnagar, Home Minister said that hundreds of thousands of schoolgoers and the people’s representatives will be mobilised in the course of the campaign.
Thapa held that alcoholism and drug abuse were the at the root of the problem and the government will regulate and control the alcohol business and take action against those dealing in narcotics.
He said the Nirmala Panta case has been ‘unnecessarily politicised’ although the Home Ministry has been conducting a deep investigation into the case. Stating that a high-level investigation team was sent to the incident site the day after Panta’s death, Home Minister Thapa insisted that the Ministry of Home Affairs was moving ahead seriously to book the culprits of this incident.
