‘We don’t need applause, we need hope’: Home Minister

Kathmandu. Home Minister Sudhan Gurung has said that the families of the martyrs and injured of the Jenji movement have high hopes from the government and will not let their trust turn into despair.

Speaking at the Genji Memorial Day programme jointly organized by the Jenji Martyrs Family Welfare Society and the Injured Jenji Nepal on Tuesday, Home Minister Gurung said that the memory of the Jenji youths who were injured and martyred during the agitation still makes him emotional.

He said he still remembers the moment when the injured were taken to the hospital and carried the martyrs on their shoulders to Pashupatinath during the agitation.

He said, “Today we do not need applause, today we need hope. Just like you and we together started the movement on September 23. I remember sitting in this place and picking up many brothers while fighting, taking my brothers and sisters to the hospital. Even now, I feel the blood on my hand. When I remember carrying those martyrs on my shoulders and taking them to Pashupati, this shoulder still feels heavy. ’

Gurung said that the injured Genji youths have high expectations from him and he feels constant pressure to fulfill their trust. He said that the government is doing its best.

“Brothers come to me with hope. Some come without hands, some without feet. The way you look at me with hope that something will happen in the country, we have ministers, so I am afraid to sleep. I am also afraid that if there is any weakness of mine, it will be only 99 instead of 100. I am trying my best to do what they believe in. Not only me, but the government of Nepal is constantly working,” he said.

He claimed that the credit for the present change and the way out for the country goes to the martyrs, injured and youths of the movement.

Home Minister Gurung expressed dissatisfaction over the interpretation of the Jenji movement in different ways by the leaders of the old parties, saying that no one could change the history of the movement.

“It is surprising that the friends of the old parties are interpreting the movement in different ways. I want to tell all of them that it is history and no one can change history. Don’t even try to change history. ’