Anti-Miss Nepal campaigners meet PM; vow to stop the event
Members of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Revolutionary Women's
Association met their party chief and Prime Minister elect Pushpa Kamal
Dahal and discussed their campaign against Miss Nepal contest scheduled to
be held next month.
The delegation members told the Prime Minister that they were determined
to disrupt the contest, and sought help from the government for their
move. In response, the Prime Minister said he was positive about the
demand of women activists and assured he would discuss the matter with
leaders of other parties.
Association's leader Amrita Thapa Magar who led the delegation told
reporters that her organisation had vowed to disrupt Miss Nepal contest.
The women activists have described the beauty show as being socially
unacceptable and as a tool to exploit the contesting women for commercial
gain. Women organisations of some other parties including Unified Marxist
Leninist (UML) have also joined forces with the association.
Recently, the women activists had padlocked the office of Hidden Treasure,
the organiser of the show which sponsored by Indian multinational company,
Dabur Limited.
Despite protest by women activists, the organisers have said they would
not suspend the show, but there might be changes in the pattern. nepalnews.com Aug 16 08
