The district secretary of the Congress says: Chicken was consumed in large quantities, mutton was not. Mutton was only for leaders and VIPs.
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Congress, Siraha organized a forest feast program on Thursday at Sarre Ambas, Dhangadhimai Municipality-14, Siraha.
On the occasion of the English New Year, two Chief Ministers, Chief Minister of Bagmati Province Indra Bahadur Baniya and Chief Minister of Madhesh Province Krishna Prasad Yadav, participated in the forest feast led by District President Ram Chandra Yadav.
In addition, Minister of Health and Population of Madhesh Province Jangilal Rai and others had also arrived at the forest feast. He and Chief Minister of Madhesh Yadav came to the forest feast by land in a government vehicle, while Chief Minister of Bagmati Baniya came by air in a helicopter.
While such a fuss made in the name of the forest feast is being widely criticized, it has been found that there was a separation in the food at the forest feast. It has been found that leaders and the general public participating in the forest feast were served different types of food.
At the forest feast, the leaders were served mutton, while the workers and the general public were served chicken. Congress district joint secretary Rambabu Yadav has admitted that leaders were served mutton and the general public were served chicken.
Similarly, vegetarians were served curd and potato-cabbage vegetables, he said. 'Chicken was consumed in large quantities, mutton not so much,' he told Kantipur, 'Mutton was only for leaders and VIPs.'
He said that around three to four thousand leaders and cadres participated in the forest feast. According to him, there was a plan to have ten thousand leaders and cadres there. The cook who was found cooking 1,000 kilos of chicken and 300 kilos of mutton at the forest feast said.
Siraha Congress president Ramchandra Yadav has claimed that there was no discrimination in the forest feast. He claimed that there was no pomp and circumstance and that only Rs 20-25,000 was spent.
'There was no discrimination, everyone ate everything,' he said, 'It is not known how much of each item was consumed, we need to calculate it, only 20-25 thousand were spent.'
