Nearly a dozen schools here forced students to suffer just for the purpose of offering flowers to the Prime Minister.“We received an invitation to welcome the Prime Minister,” said Gyan Prasad Chaulagain, teacher of Churimai Secondary School. “So we brought our students here after conducting two classes in the morning. The students waited from 8 am to 10:30 am.”
A fifth grader Suman Thapa complained that the students were not given anything to eat despite getting hungry. “There was not even water to drink,” said Thapa, who was searching for drinking water after the welcome function concluded. He added that the students came out of compulsion rather than interest.
Even nursery students were made to wait to welcome the Prime Minister. The students were sweating profusely during the wait. They weren’t even allowed to sit on the ground and were forced to keep standing until the Prime Minister was offered the flowers.
“We brought them to show them the Prime Minister,” said Goma Sapkota, a teacher of Red Rose School.
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Students of Bansha Gopal Secondary School, Janapriya School, Baljagriti School, Balbodh School, Red Rose, Hatiya Academy and Gaurishanker School, among others, had brought their students to welcome the Prime Minister who was here to lay the foundation stone of the Central Sports Academy being built at Gauritar.
The Prime Minister arrived on a helicopter and was offered a handkerchief by his bodyguard to wipe sweat barely five minutes after his arrival.
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