Government Under Contract To Hold Elections
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 30, 2013: opening the radio program called Sanchar Darpan prepared by the Bhaktapur branch of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) in Bhaktapur yesterday, Minister for Finance Shankar Prasad Koirala has said that the current government is under contract to hold elections to a new Constituent Assembly, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com.
The minister said that the main target of the government was to hold the elections at the earliest, and then turn over the power to the elected government after the elections to the Constituent Assembly (CA). He also said that the current government was a non-political one. The environment is conducive to the elections, and the political parties have built a consensus on the elections. The government is trying to convince the opposing political parties of the need for participating in the elections.