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High-level Coordination Committee
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On Sunday, November 02, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) set up a 12-member high-level coordination committee to ensure better coordination between the two parties and advise the government on important matters. Maoist leader Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ and former CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal will be the coordinators.
Top leaders of the two parties have cordial relationship among them despite the differences on a number of issues including the integration of People’s Liberation Army with the Nepal Army; however, at the youths’ level they continued to fight against each other said one of the Maoist leaders.
These two major political parties together form a majority in the Constituent Assembly. They could run the administration without the support of any other political party if worse come worse. If these two political parties go together then other political parties might not be able to destabilize the government.
Former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala have been in a campaign to topple the current six-party coalition government. However, he might not be able to do so as easily as he had done to the governments of former Prime Ministers such as Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and Sher Bahadur Deuba. The balance of power has drastically changed after the election for the Constituent Assembly in April 2008.
Probably, the two major political parties have set up a high-level coordination committee to face the challenges posed by former Prime Minister Koirala and by the leaders of other political parties that have no stable mind and often threaten to quit the government if one thing or another does not happen.
