Dhanraj Acharya, head of Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality, says, ”They should sit with flowers, they came with weapons.”
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Pokhara's lakeside became tense after the unlicensed Human Services Foundation of Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality started the Bhoomi Pujan work on Friday for the Kotihome Mahayagya. The foundation, whose founder is Vijay Bhandari, known as 'Balayageshwar Vijay Shrikrishna Murthy Ji Maharaj' of the controversial image, had performed Bhoomi Pujan at Barahi Maidan for Kotihome from May 16 to June 26.
As the Metropolitan Corporation did not give any permission to operate Kotihome, a team including the Metropolitan Police reached the Barahi Maidan to stop Bhoomi Poojan. Metropolitan police seized the materials there. There was a clash between the two sides for a while. Dhanraj Acharya, head of Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality, said that 11 of his city policemen were injured in the attack by Kotihome supporters and they are being treated at Metro City Hospital and Gandaki Medical College in Pokhara. Their heads, faces and different parts of their bodies were injured. He asked, "What is the purpose of putting bouncers with weapons?," he asked.
The Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality has said that the Kotihome Mahayagya, which was supposed to be held at the Barahi Maidan at Pokhara's lakeside, will not be held as it is. Motilal Timsina, the spokesman of the metropolis, published a statement on Friday and requested to postpone the entire program of Kotihome, which is going to be done as it violates the jurisdiction of the local government.
Spokesperson Timsina said that an uncomfortable situation has been created when Bhoomipujan was forced to be done in the name of Kotihome against the prevailing laws without the foundation's permission. "The Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality has been requesting the postponement of all programs related to Cotihome, which are pending in the Honorable High Court in Pokhara," he said. It is stated in the statement that there is work. In the
statement, it is said, "Such acts of inciting religious tolerance from the beginning by giving rude, unlimited, provocative and misleading expressions to public representatives, dividing the society in the name of religion, spreading hatred towards the eternal faith, disturbing the unity and peace of Pokhara, which has been living together peacefully for centuries, are punishable by law." A request has been made to the administration through a statement. The
foundation was also involved in cutting hundreds of years old var peepal trees in the historically important Chautari of Pokhara region. The firewood that was cut and piled up was confiscated by the city. As the Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality is fully committed to the responsibility and responsibility of protecting and promoting all religions and cultures, it has been called upon in the statement not to carry out any activities contrary to the prevailing laws in the metropolitan area. The foundation has been saying that the permission of the metropolis should not be taken as it is going to be built on land under Nepal Trust.
