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Making Or Breaking A Government
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 30, 2012: the demand of NC and CPN-UML for forming a new government at the time when they need to work on a new constitution and complete it and promulgate it on or before May 27, 2012 has been hampering the completion of a new constitution and leading to a political chaos. They need to build a consensus on a number of contentious issues concerning a new constitution rather than engaging in the power struggle. They have held marathon meetings but have not come to a common understanding means some of these guys have been just pretending to talk to resolve the disputed issues of a new constitution but actually not doing so.
At the second round of the four party meeting held at the secretariat of the Army integration Special Committee at New Baneshwor, Kathmandu yesterday, the NC and CPN-UML leaders demanded the resolution of the disputes over the state restructuring, form of governance and forming a national consensus government in a package and stressed the formation of a national consensus government causing to end the meeting inconclusively, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
However, leaders of the four power centers have claimed that they also discussed other topics of the numbers of federal units and various alternatives to the governance during the meeting.
Talking to the reporters after the meeting, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda said that political parties were close to building a consensus on the two contentious issues such as federal units and form of governance. The disputes on federalism and form of governance would be resolved by Tuesday before the meeting of the Constituent Assembly, ‘The Rising Nepal’ quotes Prachanda.
The standard practices of the leaders have been to tell the reporters that they have been close to build a consensus on the contentious issues of a new constitution but not coming to any concrete results of their talks.
The probable prime-minister-in-waiting NC leader Ram Chandra Poudel said that the parties were positive about forming a new national consensus government within a few days. "National consensus government is a must for the promulgation of the new constitution," ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today quotes Mr. Poudel.
The time is running out for promulgating a new constitution but Mr. Poudel saying a new consensus government is a must means obstructing the promulgating a new consensus government. A new consensus government is only a wishful thinking.
Mr. Poudel had shamelessly run for the office of prime minister eighteen times without success in the early 2011 obstructing the formation of a new government for several months causing to suspend the work on the peace process and the constitution writing.
At the meeting of the UCPN-Maoist and UDMF coalition partners held at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar today, the coalition partners decided to focus their attention on timely constitution crafting rather than forming a national consensus government, and resolved to intensify the high-level discussions to promulgate a new constitution within the May 27 deadline, nepalnews.com today writes. However, the leaders of the ruling coalition partners made it clear that they would play a constructive role in forming a national consensus government if the possibility of forming such a government would arise. The coalition partners sat together today to discuss the issue after the NC leaders put forward the issue of forming a new consensus government at the Sunday’s meeting of the leaders of UCPN-Maoist, NC, CPN-UML and UDMF stating a new consensus government was the part of the seven-point agreement rather than focusing on the agenda of state restructuring: the most contentious issue of a new constitution.
