CPN Vice-chairman Bam Dev Gautam has urged the party Chairman and Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli to self-criticize and take back his Ayodhya claims.
"I deem it is appropriate for the PM to take back his statement and self-criticize with the people paying attention to the enormity of national and international controversy stirred by his statement on Ram's birth-place," Gautam has posted on Facebook on Tuesday.
He has reminisced how Oli had raised the issue with him during a meeting two years back and he had advised Oli to not talk about that anywhere without investigation, and facts and evidence to back that.
Gautam has also pointed that where Lord Ram was born should not make any difference for communists who are realists but cautioned that religious belief of any of the tens of millions of people following different religions should not be hurt.
PM Oli accused India of encroaching on cultural facts and claimed Ayodhya is not in India but is a village to the west of Birgunj on Monday.
Addressing a program organized at the PM's official residence in Baluwatar to mark the birth anniversary of the First Poet Bhanubhakta Acharya, Oli rued that Nepal has been oppressed culturally.
"We have been oppressed a bit culturally. Facts have been encroached. We still believe that we gave Sita to Indian Prince Ram. But we gave to the prince from Ayodhya not India. Ayodhya is a village a little west to Birgunj, not the Ayodhya created now," he elaborated.
He argued how can a prince from so far come to Janakpur for marriage if the Ayodhya claimed by India were real. He claimed that science and knowledge originated and developed in Nepal and rued that it could not be continued.
