What do you think of the 14-state model passed by the State Restructuring and Sharing of State Power Committee?
I am totally against it. There are efforts being made to fragment the country in the name of ethnicity, and create recognised ethnic groups.

What difference does it make if we give provinces to those who suffered injustices?
Provinces should not be created on the basis of ethnicity or religion. On what basis do those who supported the creation of a secular state speak for ethnicity based provinces? There should be three provinces consisting of Himal, Hills and Tarai, and sub-provinces could be created within them.

It is said that if Chitwan is made the federal capital, Madhesis will be willing to accept two separate Madhes provinces?
Some of the parties in the Madhes may be in favour of this. But this is not what the Madhes movement in general wants. There should be a single Madhes province with sub-provinces according to what the Madhesis want.

What do you think of the two-Madhesi state model proposed by the State Restructuring Committee?
It is very unscientific. The people won't benefit from this, quite the opposite. In places, three or four ethnic groups have been assimilated to make up a mish-mash province. It's laughable. They could even have named the two states Lumbini and Mithila. How can people who can't settle on this issue restructure the state?

Some say this is necessary for ethnic identity.
The Maoists have destabilised the country to generate conflict and capture state power just in the name of ethnic identity. Otherwise how would there be ethnic provinces here? There aren't ethnic majorities anywhere.

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