We often bicker and complain about the sorry state that our nation. Everybody wants to praise Finance Secretary Rameshwore Khanal, nobody wants to walk his steps. Everybody wants to stay in the comfort of their homes and argue on computer screen about ""यो भएन, त्यो भएन , नेपाल खत्तम"". I have done the same and am as guilty as all for the sorry state of Nepal

The recent VAT Fraud is one of the biggest financial scandal of our times set to destroy our generation's collective future. The major corporate houses used FAKE VAT bills to hold OUR tax money that was supposed to go to the national treasury. With billions of rupees involved in this fraud, the corporate houses orchestrated this to demolish the whole tax structure of Nepal.

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The Finance Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikary not only forced the Finance Secretary to resign but he flies around the world pretending as if nothing has happened. Adding insult to our generation's collective wisdom, the America Nepal Society has invited him to a program as a guest. There are handful of stooges who will benefit from this but this will establish a precedent in Nepal that honesty and integrity of people like Finance Secretary will always lose and corruption will always win. If you really really care about Nepal, please please please be there at the program to protest. Citizen activism starts right from your heart.

Let's protest against this welcome move by ANS. Let's send a clear message to the Minister and his stooges that they better spend time doing first things first, like drafting the constitution, and that people are against his corrupt leadership and his illegal nexus with the corporate houses.

Protest banners will be distributed at the spot.

Date: April 17, 2011

Time: 1 PM EST

Venue:

NECC Building

20520 Beallsville Rd

Beallsville, MD 20839