Solidarity for women’s leadership development

Janakpurdham- Speakers at a programme held here on Saturday said that the development of family, society and nation is not possible without the all-round development of women. In an interaction with the leaders of the religious, social, educational and other fields related to gender equality and women’s leadership held in Lalgadh of Dhanusha under the auspices of Dalit Mahila Kendra Nepal, they also expressed their commitment to support the development of women from their respective fields.

On the occasion, religious leader Durga Prasad Khanal said social development cannot be imagined without the cooperation of men and women but in the past injustice has been done to women due to lack of understanding. So now we religious leaders should move forward and spread the real message. Similarly, Pandit Bachukailash Pokharel of Radhakrishna Temple in Dhalkebar expressed his commitment to spread the fact that the religious scriptures do not discriminate between men and women. Similarly, Buddhist Haitya Singh Gunjan mentioned that there is no discrimination between men and women in Buddhism.

Ramkumar Mahato, the headmaster of Mahendra Secondary School in Mithila Municipality-6, pointed out that a supportive environment should be created from the home to remove the obstacles that women are facing from moving forward. Executive chairperson of the Rastriya Samachar Samiti, Dharmendra Jha, said that women are still being oppressed due to gender inequality, discrimination, and dowry system in Madhes province and said that everyone should play a positive role against it. He said that the leaders of the society should change their thinking to stop violence against women based on custom, tradition and wrong religious values.

Likewise, Gaura Nepali, the founding president of Dalit Mahila Kendra Nepal and Tejendra Lama, the executive director of the organization, said the programme was organised the aim of spreading awareness about the wrong aspects connected with anti-women thinking, belief, custom-tradition and religion-practices and expressed the confidence that in the future the participants will play a positive role in their respective fields.