31 September 2019, Kathmandu
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has extended cordial wishes for health, happiness, peace, prosperity and continued progress to all Nepalese in the country and abroad on the occasion of Tamu Lhoshar, the main festival and New Year of the Tamu (Gurung) community.
In a message of best wishes PM Oli expressed his believed that the Tamu Lhoshar festival would foster cordiality, religious tolerance and respect among all Nepalis including the Tamu community, thereby promoting national unity.
He further shared in his message – “Our country is a nation with multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural characteristics. The diversity of languages, religions, cultures and costumes, among others, are our valuable asset,”. He also stressed on the need of promoting and preserving this diversified common cultural capital.
PM Oli has also expressed the belief that this festival will inspire all to move ahead by promoting and protecting the custom, tradition and culture of the Tamu community. He stated that Nepal was presently on a campaign of fulfilling the national aspiration of the Nepalis for ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepalis’ by internalizing the principle of unity in diversity that defines Nepali identity.
