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Holding Elections To CA Rather Than Debating On Threshold
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 10, 2013: CPN-UML reiterated its earlier stand on the proposed election law. The party’s standing committee meeting held at its headquarters in Balkhu decided to stick to the provision for the threshold and prohibiting convicted people from contesting the upcoming Constituent Assembly election, according to gorkhapatraonline.com.
At the central committee meeting of UCPN-Maoist held at its headquarters in Kathmandu yesterday, Chairman Prachanda has briefed that the NC and CPN-UML are not willing to hold elections in September. He also said the current government is determined to hold elections but the NC and CPN-UML have been putting hurdles to it, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today
Meanwhile, chairman of Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Nepal Upendra Yadav said that the CA poll could not be held in the current status quo. "The political and technical bases have not yet been prepared, so, it will be futile to hold the poll," Yadav said while talking to journalists in Mahotari. He claimed that the poll was going to happen only to meet the interest of big three political parties. On the much talked about threshold provision, he said that the country should not be taken hostage because of threshold, according to gorkhapatraonline.com.
Before the departure for India at the international airport in Kathmandu yesterday senior leader of NC Sher Bahadur Deuba said that the political parties should focus on announcing the Constituent Assembly election date at the earliest rather than debating on the threshold. “Other parties discredited the NC for its stance that there should be threshold provision for the parties to get seats under the proportional representation system,” he said and added that no any precondition should come on the way to holding the polls. Senior leader Deuba said that he suggested party president Sushil Koirala to move accordingly, according to gorkhapatraonline.com.
