Joining electoral alliance is compulsion for LSP: Chair Thakur

Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP) chairperson Mahanta Thakur has said that it is a compulsion for his party to enter into an electoral alliance with various parties in the November 20 election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly.

Thakur said this while addressing the party’s election manifesto unveiling program in Jaleshwor, the headquarters of Mahottari district, on Sunday.

“The collaboration with various big parties in the election is for further empowering the Madhesi people,” he said, adding that the party had to forge an electoral alliance to fulfill the voices raised in the course of the Madhes movement and to impart justice to the Madhes.

“We need to have our friends who are languishing in jail released and the trumped-up political charges against them revoked. We also need to address the pending issues of citizenship and constitutional amendment. At the same time, we need to secure the rights for the Madhesi people,” the LSP Chairperson stressed.

Responding to journalists’ queries, Thakur said the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party is capable enough to secure the Madhesi people’s rights and address their problems.

The party has expressed its commitment through the election manifesto to guaranteeing the rights and interests of the Madhes and Madhesis, including citizenship, education, and health as well as protecting democracy, establishing federalism with identity, continuity of the parliamentary system, building a concrete and pragmatic foreign policy in the national interest and a society based on good governance, integrity and free from corruption.

The LSP’s election manifesto also emphasizes on women empowerment, youth empowerment, and building a robust national economy.
Party leaders Sarat Singh Bhandari, Anil Kumar Jha, and Umakanta Jha jointly unveiled the party’s election manifesto on the occasion. (RSS)