Kathmandu, Jan. 7 -- Massive bushfires are currently raging across Australia, engulfing millions of hectares of land. At least 24 people have been killed and millions of animals feared dead while thousands of people are being evacuated to safer locations.

Amid this apocalyptic scenario, Nepal's tourism minister Yogesh Bhattarai, on Tuesday, inaugurated the Visit Nepal 2020 campaign in Sydney, the capital of Australia's New South Wales, where the brunt of the fires is.

The reaction on social media was swift, calling Bhattarai's decision to travel to Australia and lead a tourism campaign insensitive, ridiculous and inappropriate.

"This is absolutely not [the] right way and [the] right time for such rally, [e]specially when Australia is h...