By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, June 3: Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa 'Badal' said on Tuesday that the country needed to begin a cultural and social transformation campaign to end all kinds of cast-based discriminations from the country.
Comparing Rukum (West)'s Soti village murder incident with that of America's recent unlawful killing of George Flyod, an African-American man, Home Minister Thapa said even America, which is a pioneer in development and democracy, was not free from the problem of discrimination.
The Home Minister made this remark while giving answer to questions raised at Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the Federal Parliament.
The Committee members participating at the meeting said the government failed to control caste-based violent incidents time and again

although it has already been abolished and there is law to punish those who commit the crime. The speakers said that the Rukum incident was an outcome of caste-based discrimination.
Listening to the viewpoints of the speakers, Home Minister Thapa said even America, the most powerful nation in the world, was still struggling to end racial and caste discrimination.
"Compared to the countrymen in America, people in our country have shown endurance by not coming to the street for protest and resorting to violence," he said.
Home Minister Thapa said despite some incidents, the government was successful in controlling such caste-based violence and discrimination.
Cultural and social transformation campaign should be initiated in the country to end all such social evils for good in practical sense, he said.
Home Minister Thapa said the government was serious about bringing the perpetrators of Rukum murder to book.