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Encouraged By Fresh Talks With NC And CPN-UML
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 28, 2012: Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has been encouraged by the fresh talks he has had with the leaders of NC and CPN-UML. Chairman Prachanda has said that he has had talks with the leaders of NC and CPN-UML and they would hold talks regularly. He also has said that the Nepalese leaders have two options: one to agree on amending the Interim Constitution for holding an election to a new CA and another is to revive the dissolved CA and promulgate a new constitution. His party is ready to demonstrate maximum possible flexibility so that every party would have something to take home but he categorically rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai until the parties promulgate a new constitution stating the resignation of the prime minister would aggravate the problems rather than resolving them, as the country would plunge into uncertainty after the resignation of the prime minister. After the fresh meeting with the opposition leaders at the residence of President of NC Sushil Koirala at Maharajgunj in Kathmandu today, Chairman Prachanda went to see the Head of State President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav to brief him on the progress made in the talks.
The Council of Ministers has made a decision on recommending to the Head of State three Acts such as Civil Service Act, Education Service Act, and Health Service Act to amend, and pass a bill on Truth and Reconciliation Commission through the Presidential ordinances. It remains to be seen what the president would do in view of the two-election-relegated bills the President had refused to pass through the presidential ordinances.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has complained that the government has failed in consulting with NHRC before sending its recommendations to the president for issuing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission ordinance, consequently, the ordinance would not be able to bring the human rights abusers to justice, and to provide the victims with relief, as the ordinance has been primarily for granting amnesty to the human rights violators. The recommendations made by the NHRC have gone astray, as the government has ignored them while formulating the draft of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, NHRC has said.
The Council of Ministers also has sent its recommendation to the President for appointing Gaurav Shumsher Rana to the office of Chief of Army Staff after Chief of Army Staff Chhatra Man Singh Gurung retires on September 9, 2012.
Politburo member of UCPN-Maoist Girirajmani Pokhrel has said that some political parties have conspired to push the country to a new conflict trying to write a new constitution by passing the CA but his party would not allow them to do so. He also has said that the country has only two options either to go for an election to a new CA or to revive the old one to promulgate a new constitution.
Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has completed one year in office today. On this occasion, he addressed a nation to tell the people what he has not done and what he has. He has said that a new constitution has not been promulgated, as the opposition leaders walked away from the extension of the term of the CA leading to the dissolution of the CA, and then they blamed the government for it. Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai has enlisted the completion of the peace process as the success. Despite the opposition of the some of the leaders of his own party, he has pushed the turning over of the weapons to the government and the integration of the combatants to the Nepal Army, he said. He also has said that he is not for staying in office forever but ready to quit the office at any time the political leaders build a national consensus, as quitting the office without such a consensus means bringing political chaos consequently causing an untold misery to the people.
Deputy Prime Minister holding portfolio of Home Minster Bijay Gacchedar has said that since he took the office of the Home Minister a year ago, the crime rate in the country has drastically reduced, and he is going to reduce it further bringing a white paper on the security in the country. He also has enlisted the peace process, and widening roads in the Kathmandu Valley are the significant achievements of the current government. He has made it clear that the prime minister is not going to quit the office until the leaders build a national consensus on resolving everything in a package.
