KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Nepali Congress (NC) has said it would not organize a tea reception on Kojagrat purnima this year.
The NC used to conduct the tea party to exchange festival greetings since 2033 BS, the year iconic leader BP Koirala returned from exile with the policy of 'national unity and reconciliation'.
NC not to organize tea reception on Kojagrat Purnima this year
Issuing a press statement, Chief Secretary at NC central office, Krishna Prasad Paudel, informed that the party would not hold the tea reception this year reasoning that Nepal was mourning on the eve of the festival.
"The entire country is aggrieved and NC party offices are destroyed. At such a moment, the party is for national unity and reconciliation," he said, adding that there would not be the tea reception and greetings programme this time.
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