Two teenagers seeking citizenship from Jajarkot to Bajhang

These brothers, 19 and 17 years old, came to the district administration office on Monday after walking from Gim, Mavali village in Bheri Municipality, and requested to facilitate them for citizenship in Thalara Rural Municipality, where their father's ancestral home is on Saturday. However, after their efforts were not successful, where did the chief district officer come to understand the legal process?

They gave a long list of Bharat Bhattarai of Kholi Thalara Rural Municipality-6 in Bajhang before Pragya Vishwamitra Kuikel. Bharat, who reached India's Shimla from Bajhang around 2058, was married to Mangali Kami of Jajarkot. After the death of her husband, Mangali also reached there with a relative. Love falls between the two who work as laborers in an agricultural firm. They get married there .

Himanshu's sister Himani and brother Ramesh were born two years apart. When the younger brother was 6/7 months old, the owner (Krishi Rafam) reduced the number of workers here. He sent his father to Nepal to get him from Nepal,'' said Himanshu, saying that his mother had told him, 'Father went looking for a worker and never came back.' He said that he was working in a firm. After the father did not return for two years, the owner of the firm started hurting the mother.

Mother and I used to lock the room where we were staying because they would run away at night,' Himesh said, 'One day after suffering a lot, mother blindfolded the owner and took us and ran away from there.' The mother who came to the place said that she raised herself by working as an agricultural laborer. Himanshu, who said that he returned to Jajarkot with them 6 years ago after meeting the people of Mavali in Bhujali, has only one photo that his mother collected as a reminder that his father-in-law is Bharat Bhattarai. Himanshu's mother and father, Bharat, are in the shriveled picture. In the photo, he is seen holding his little daughter. Our house is in Thalara Kholi of Bajhang. Our ancestors came from Salena . They came to Bajhang in the hope of getting citizenship, carrying the address and the same old photo that Bharat told Mangali two decades ago saying, "I have a brother and a sister at home".

After reaching Thalara, their hope turned into disappointment, they went to pray to Prajia . In the discussion among the villagers on Saturday in the coordination of the representatives of the rural municipality, the same Dautaris recognized that the person in the picture was Bharata. Some even said that the son's face matches the father's. But Bharat's father Ganesh Bhattarai and his wife Nanda said that they did not know the person in that photo and said that citizenship cannot be given to a stranger, then they went to request Prazia to grant citizenship, said Gauri Bahadur Karki, a member of the Judicial Committee of Bheri Municipality.

'I felt sorry to see their condition . I have come to see if it is possible to facilitate the granting of citizenship,'' said Karki. How to give citizenship became a problem later. When he understood the atmosphere there, everyone agreed that they should be Bharat's children, but it seems that the issue of caste created a problem. He said that after knowing that his mother was Kami, Ganesh felt it was difficult to grant citizenship.

Bharat's wife Nanda Bhattarai said that the man in the photo is not her husband. "Looking at the photo, I don't see any evidence that it is my husband." It is not necessary not to know your own people,' she said, 'How can you give citizenship to the children of people you do not know?' She left her husband Bharat, one year old daughter and herself, and went to India in October 2058. It would have been a different matter if he had brought his breath or body. How can you give citizenship based on showing a photo?' she said.

Although a local of Thalara said that even though the family members identified Bharat, they refused to give him citizenship because of his caste. The photo belongs to him. We all know . His father also recognized him," he said, "seeing his son's photo, he became emotional. But the photo said that he does not know how to accept a child born to a Dalit as a brother.' As claimed by Himanshu, he said that there is a brother and a sister in Bharat's house.

Thalara-6 Ward President Anil Bist also said that some people recognized the photo, but the family said that they did not recognize it, so they also had a problem facilitating. "The municipality president, vice president and we have discussed this issue for a long time," Bist said. In that case, we have sent you to go through the legal process.' He said that Bharat was also married in Thalara and had a daughter before his marriage with Mangali.

Himanshu and his brother say that they will not claim even a part of their citizenship. Himansu, who is working as a sailor in a truck, said that he also learned to drive but could not get a license because he did not have citizenship. Due to lack of citizenship, we are facing problems everywhere. We haven't even been able to take out a SIM card," he told Prazia. "If we got citizenship, we were thinking of making a passport and going abroad. Citizenship must also be shown to go to India. Brother, that is why it has been stopped . Instead, the paper itself will write that the part is not required . We had to be given citizenship.'

Prazia Kuikel said that although she is serious about the problem, the municipality cannot grant citizenship without recommending citizenship and without identification by relatives. "If you go to the court process, it can be proven," he said, "After the case is filed in the court, the relationship can be established through DNA testing and other methods. But we cannot give citizenship without any evidence.' He advised that no citizen should remain without citizenship and if a case is filed, the court will give some solution. After Prazia's advice, the Himanshu brothers have said that they have reached the conclusion of persuading Bharat's family as much as possible to grant citizenship and if they do not, they will seek legal remedies.

_{Himanshu's brothers and relatives who came from Jajarkot to Bajhang on the day of citizenship giving their problems to Chief District Officer Vishwamitra Kuikel.}