Portland, Aug 12 (Nepal Oregon News): An interaction program of Nepalese Portlanders with lawmaker Bishal Khadka and Dr Kabindra Bajracharya was organized at the US West Coast Taekwondo School Hollywood in Portland on Sunday, August 11, 2019.
At the beginning of the interaction program, general secretary of International Open Friendship Taekwondo Championship (IOFTC) Karen Blackledge welcomed the guests from Nepal by wrapping Khata on them.
Bishal Khadka is the honorable member of Nepalese Parliament and strong advocate of inclusiveness and equality. Khadka is the youngest parliamentarian in Nepal elected from Province 3, Dolakha 3, Dolakha 1 (A).
Before unification of Communist Party of Nepal--Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and Unified Communist Party of Nepal -- Maoist (UCPN-M) into one single Nepal Communist Party, Khadka had also served as a central committee member of UCPN-M, and was Deputy in-charge of Dolakha District of UCPN-M.
Dr Bajracharya is a well known eye doctor and Meditation Guru from Nepal. Currently, working as Associate Professor at Lumbini Eye Institute in Bhairahawa, Nepal, he is in the US visit for six weeks as an observer at the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health Science University.
The interaction with member of the House of Representatives of Nepal Khadka centered on current political situation in Nepal, dual citizenship for non-resident Nepalese, ethnic diversity, Guthi Bill, among others.
The period of insurgency is over, said MP Khadka who lost his brother during the conflict. He underlined the need for change in perception and way of thinking for stakeholders.
Addressing the Portland gathering, the youngest Member of Parliament from Nepal said that the political parties and political stalwarts should rise above the petty partisan interests and get down to real soul searching for finding ways to improve the life of the ordinary Nepalese people.
However, talk with Dr Bajracharya focused on development of eye treatment in Nepal.
Informing the audience that there are 300 ophthalmologists in Nepal today, Dr Bajracharya expressed satisfaction about the overall situation of eye treatment in Nepal. Percentage of blindness has substantially decreased over past 30 years, he added.
Innovative medical procedures are being developed for eye treatment in Nepal. 200,000 eye patients are treated annually only at Lumbini Eye Hospital. (LEH). Thousands of people from India also come to LEH for eye treatment, Dr Bajracharya said.
At the end of the interaction, legislator Khadka and Dr Bajracharya answered the questions raised by Bharat Banskota of Nepali Association of Oregon, Daya Shakya and Lax Darlamee of NRNA Oregon Chapter, Alex Minu of the Hollywood Taekwondo School and Rabin Man Shakya, a journalist from Nepal Oregon News.
The interaction program -- which was attended by office bearers of Nepali Association of Oregon, Nepa Chhen, NRNA USA Oregon Chapter, International Open Friendship Taekwondo Championship (IOFTC), Nritya Mandala Mahavihara and Nepal Oregon News (NON) -- was followed by a Nepali style dinner. The interaction program was conducted by Daya Shakya, NRNA USA Oregon chapter president.
(Nepal Oregon News writer Rabin Man Shakya is a Nepali journalist in USA)
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