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Extending Deadline For Forming A New Government
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 10, 2013: the head of state President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav has extended the deadline for forming a new government to January 14, 2013. President Yadav had issued first deadline for forming a national unity government on November 23, 2012 following the Article 38 (1) of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007.
Leaders of major four political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC, CPN-UML, and UDMF went to the President’s Office today afternoon and requested the head of the state for extending deadline for another five days promising to build a consensus on a new government by then.
Formation of a new government in Nepal has been just like a mirage. Every time, political leaders say they are about to reach a deal on a consensus government but deadline expires and they dn’ot reached anywhere near to reach a deal.
The NC has nominated its President Sushil Koirala to a candidate for a new prime minister but unfortunately for Mr. Koirala, the Madheshi leaders have opposed his candidacy because of his negative stand on the federalism and federal states that the Madheshi people have fought for.
Now the CPN-UML has started campaigning for another candidate abandoning Koirala: one of the allies of the opposition coalition. It is only a scene of the political drama.
The NC leaders claim that it is their turn to run the administration, as both the UCPN-Maoist, and the CPN-UML have had already their leaders led the government but the NC has not done so far. The NC leaders want that somebody brings the office of prime minister on a platter to Sushil Koirala but nobody wants to do that.
NC leaders including Sushil Koirala have been madly asking the head of state President Dr Ram Baran Yadav for serving the office of prime minister on a platter to Mr. Koirala. Recently, CPN-UML leader KP Oli has said that the President could do that as if Mr. Oli was a Supreme leader of the nation. But everybody knows that Mr. Oli was a leader of some paid cadres as other leaders were, too.
However, yesterday speaking at the public event held in Chitwan, President Dr Yadav repeated that he was not going to step over the constitutional boundary; so, the political leaders needed to resolve their problems; in other words he was not going to serve the prime ministerial office on a platter to anybody.
