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STAFF WRITER 19:55 HRS IST

Shirish B Pradhan

Kathmandu, Oct 24 (PTI) The Nepalese government is under mounting pressure from animal right activists, which includes India's noted activist Maneka Gandhi, to stop the centuries old animal sacrifice at Gadhimai Festival in Bara district.

Around 2,00,000 animals including 20,000 buffaloes will be sacrificed this year as millions of devotees prepare to arrive for the festival at the area near Indo-Nepal border on November.

The festival takes place every five years, and some 7 million people, half of them from bordering Indian states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, visited the Gadhimai Temple in 2005.

Maneka Gandhi has mailed a letter to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal asking for his intervention to stop the animal sacrifice, which is considered the biggest in the world, in the temple.

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