Who says 'madhesis' are unhappy? u can't come to conclusion from what few people are saying. there are a lot of people in nepal who want to make a career out of doing politics of caste, creed n religion. perhaps this is because of the high unemployment rates. nowadays everyone is trying to make their career by forming all sorts of mukti morchas. not only madhesis, but magar, gurung, rai, newar mukti morchas and so on. last time i heard of majhi and danuwaar mukti morcha as well ! so this is a fashion nowadays. newa mukti morcha demanded for newa autonomous region in ktm valley saying that newars are oppressed ! if newars are oppressed in nepal, then i don't know what is the meaning of the term 'oppression'. and do the majority of people of the particular community support their respective mukti morchas??? this is a topic which can only be decided by a referendum. and the term 'madhesi' is itself confusing. what does 'madhesi' mean? if it means someone staying in madhesh, then g. p. koirala is also a 'madhesi' and also are the bahuns, chhetris, magars, newars etc - the so called 'pahadi' groups which constitute around 45% of the total terai population as per the 2001 census. If 'madhesi' connotes the so called typical terai etnic groups, then they are in a minority in 10 out of the 20 terai districts itself, including Jhapa, makwanpur, dang, sunsari, morang etc. In the terai districts of mid west and far west as well (baanke, bardiya, kailali, kanchanpur) the predominating terai group is the Tharus, who have their own thaaruwaan mukti morcha, and i don't think they in any way are in favour of the madhesi identity. majhis, danuwars, santhaals, rajbanshi, tharu, musahar, jhangads etc form the majority of the terai ethnic groups in the eastern terai. they are in no way related to the 'madhesi mukti morcha'. so is the term' madhesi' being used to denote residents of the predominantly maithili and bhojpuri speaking townships of Janakpur, Rajbiraj and Birgunj? Or is this a term being used by few of the politically conscious, higher castes and communities of terai origin? I am confused. because terai of nepal is an etnically diverse region which cannot be represented by the narrow vision provided by the term 'madhesi'.