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Leaders For And Against Elections To CA
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 2, 2013: speaking in Itahari yesterday, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda said that his party would emerge stronger after the new CA elections. He said that his party would form a united front with different political parties for the poll purposes, as the need is for unity among the forces of change, according to gorkhapatraonline.com.
Speaking at the event held to mark the 124th Labor Day in Kathmandu yesterday, Secretary of CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya Netra Bikram Chand said that his party would not participate in the elections being held at the risk of nationality. He said his party would obstruct the CA elections, as the new CA would not write a constitution as desired by the people. "There is no meaning of the election being conducted under the pressure of the foreign forces," he said, according to gorkhapatraonline.com.
Secretary of CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya Dev Gurung yesterday said that his party would not register with the Election Commission unless the 25-point presidential order of March 14 was repealed and a new government led by a party was formed. Speaking at an interaction, Gurung said fresh elections were being held ‘as part of a conspiracy’ and ‘that’s why the new Constituent Assembly will not be able to produce a new constitution’. “It was the four forces that blocked voting process in the last CA for 18 months,” Gurung said, adding that the new CA could fail again if all-party consensus was not forged before the elections. “In addition, the last CA had completed 80 per cent of work. Why do we need to spend such huge resources for remaining 20 per cent task?” Gurung wondered, according to the HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of yesterday.
Speaking at a press conference held by the Press Union in Surkhet yesterday, Vice President of NC Ram Chandra Poudel has accused some political forces of opposing the chief justice-led government, as they were afraid of elections. "We agreed on incumbent CJ, as there was tendency of disagreeing government of any one party, and this government will hold free and fair elections by third week of November", he said, according to the RSS news posted on the gorkhapatraonline.com. The political forces including CPN-Maoist led by Mohan Vaidhya had been demanding elections under an all-party government.
Chairman of Madhesi People’s Rights Forum-Nepal Upendra Yadav has said that his party will register with the Election Commission for the upcoming polls, but some time later. He, however, said that holding elections without forging a consensus on basic principles of the constitution would be meaningless. He reiterated that the 25-point presidential order also must be corrected in order to hold fresh elections. “The country cannot write a new constitution without ending the current conflict. People might not own the new constitution if elections were held without addressing all stakeholders’ concerns,” Yadav said. He said the four political forces misguided people by saying they would hold polls by June. “Now these forces are saying polls will be held in November, but I doubt, as issues like citizenship distribution, voters’ registration and delineation of constituencies are yet to be addressed,” he added, according to the HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of yesterday.
Talks between Sanghiya Samajbadi Party and the government’s talks team ended inconclusively yesterday after the party put forward the six-point demands such as scrapping of the 11-point agreement reached on March 13, as it is an outcome of the four-party syndicate; repealing of the President’s order on March 14 to remove the constitutional difficulties, as it is unconstitutional; retaining the old provision for number, proportion and representation of CA members; delineating the constituencies; and provision for voting rights to those Nepalis living abroad. Another round of talks will be held later, after consulting other stakeholders, according to the HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of yesterday.
“We have put forth our six-point demands. It is still unclear whether we will take part in the Constituent Assembly polls; not, if our demands are not addressed,” said party’s general secretary Rajendra Shrestha. He said the talks ended on a positive note though. Minister for Information and Communications Madhav Paudel said that the government would discuss with major political parties and the Election Commission. “As all the demands are not related to us, we are unable to address all of them,” said Paudel.
