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Finally CPN-UML for Letting Hostage Go
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 17, 2010: Chairman of CPN-UML Jhalanath Khanal has been holding the election to a new prime minister hostage not voting in the election for 16 rounds of voting stating he is for working on the consensus politics. However, he has neither been able to build a consensus on electing a new prime minister nor has allowed others to elect a new prime minister by majority votes thus making the loss of about six months in forming a new government but allowing his deceitful colleague Madhav Nepal to continue in the office and enjoy the foreign travels at the cost of the nation.
At last, the CPN-UML central committee has decided on Thursday, December 16, to keep all options open to break the political deadlock, and to urge the NC candidate for prime minister to pull out his candidate if he refuses the CPN-UML legislators will vote against him, the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of December 17, 2010 writes.
In a meeting of 15 parties represented in the Legislature Parliament, held at the Central office of the Nepali Congress in Sanepa, Lalitpur on Thursday, December 16, 2010, the leaders have agreed on giving the continuity to the candidacy of Ram Chandra Poudel for the office of prime minister, and on foiling the proposal the UCPN-Maoist will present in the special session. Leaders of CPN-UML, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Nepal, Nepal Workers and Peasants Party did not participate in the meeting according to ‘The Rising Nepal’.
On Sunday, December 19, the parliament will start a special session the president has called after the legislators of eight political parties including the UCPN-Maoist have signed up a petition for calling a special session.
After hearing in the case filed demanding the single candidate Ram Chandra Poudel running for a prime minister be declared elected unanimously, a special bench of Supreme Court Justices Bal Ram KC, Sushila Karki and Bharat Raj Upreti has ruled on Friday, December 17, 2010 that all legislators attending the parliamentary session should participate in the voting in the election to a prime minister, neplnews.com writes.
On Friday, December 17, 2010, the UCPN-Maoist leaders have registered the proposal for the fresh start of the election to a new prime minister in the special session of the parliament that will begin on Sunday, December 19, 2010 according to myrepublica.com
