Lumbini alone can ensure natl prosperity: Bhattarai

BUTWAL, OCT 30 - UCPN (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai has claimed that only the development of Lumbini area as world peace center would put Nepal on the road to prosperity.

He further added that Lumbini is the only means for Nepal to compete with the neighbouring countries in terms of development in the 21st century.

Speaking at an election rally organised in Butwal on Wednesday, the former prime minister remarked that the country would take a giant leap forward if only one percent of the total Buddhist population in the world could be brought annually by developing Lumbini into a religious center of Buddhists.

Bhattarai attributed the failure to prioritise development and prosperity above politics for the problems facing the nation. He claimed that the parties from now on would make development and prosperity as their common agenda above politics.

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