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Follow Consensus Politics For Breaking Political Deadlock
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 10, 2010: the state-run news agency ‘RSS’ has reported that the scheduled meeting of the top leaders of the three political parties for enforcing the three-point agreement on forming a national consensus government and formulating a constitution following the people’s aspiration did not take place today, June 09, 2010.
The meeting of the top leaders of the three major political parties has been called off from time to time since a week now despite efforts on forging consensus on enforcing the three-point deal the major three parties have reached on May 28 for extending the term of the Constituent Assembly (CA).
Practically, no achievement has been made in enforcing the deal reached with the objective of setting up a democratic system in the country and institutionalizing the achievements of the People’s Movement despite making efforts at reaching consensus among the parties.
A meeting between the leaders of the NC and the CPN-UML on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 has decided to prepare a common document on integration of the Maoist combatants, dissolution of the paramilitary structure of the YCL, returning the land and property seized during the conflict period and the form and process of setting up of a national consensus government.
The meeting has decided to prepare a definite action plan on enforcing the joint document prepared by the NC and the CPN-UML and also to take the initiatives for making the prime minister step down for paving the way for constitution of a national consensus government if the Maoist is positive on the joint document.
Spokesman for the NC Arjun Narsingh K.C. has said that there is no alternative to forging unity among the parties for enforcing the peace process, integration and rehabilitation of Maoist combatants within the extended term of the CA.
On June 07, 2010, the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ has reported that smaller parties represented in the CA have urged the three major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML to concentrate their activities on the constitution writing process leaving their partisan interest and power politics aside at the all-party meeting of the Constitutional Committee (CC) of the CA held in Kathmandu.
They have said that the CA could not promulgate a new constitution even in the extended period of one year of the CA if the three major political parties stuck to their own interpretation of the three-point agreement and indulged in making and breaking the government; the parties should start settling the differences first to promulgate the new constitution within the extended time.
Chairman of CC Nilamber Acharya has hoped that the meeting would pave the way for consensus politics in the coming days; the meeting would be important if the parties could review the reasons for which the constitution could not be completed during the last two years. He has said that no agreement would have meaning if it is not enforced and asked the political parties to enforce the agreement they have signed off.
Talking to the reporters after the meeting, on of the Vice-chairmen of UCPN-Maoist Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has wondered at the failure of Prime Minister Madhav Nepal to quit following the three-point deal. He has said that his party still wants the effective enforcement of the deal. "It has been 11 days since the agreement was reached but the Prime Minister has not quit. It would be a lesson for others as well if the Prime Minister quits immediately by keeping in mind the political and moral values," he said.
On June 09, 2010, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly Subhas Nemwang has said that the parties would soon prepare a base for the enforcement of the three-point agreement the three major parties reached on May 28 according to the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of June 10, 2010. "The political parties have to implement the agreements in order to clear up the people’s confusion about whether the new constitution will be promulgated within the extended tenure of the CA," Nemwang said while releasing ‘Nepal: Design Options for the New Constitution’, a book published jointly by Nepal Constitutional Foundations, Tribhuvan University Faculty of Law and Supreme Court Bar Association.
