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NC Holding House Session Hostage, Speaker Not Taking Actions
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 26, 2011: NC lawmakers yesterday have held the House Session hostage demanding the immediate enforcement of the five-point deal the leaders of UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML have reached on May 28, 2011 and the legislature-parliament has endorsed it. They also have complained that the UCPN-Maoist has decided to send a large number of its members to the cabinet rather than enforcing the five-point deal.
Nepalese political analysts ask whether this path the NC lawmakers have chosen to enforce the five-point deal is a correct one or not. Most of them say that certainly it is a politically suicidal path the NC lawmakers have chosen; it will bring all the ongoing processes to standstill; it means the NC lawmakers don’t want to see the peace process and the constitution writing moving forward although the five-point deal has these issues as the main points.
Political analysts think that the NC leaders need to let the House run its regular business and let the political leaders take initiatives to enforce the five-point deal. Unfortunately, NC President Sushil Koirala has spent more than three weeks abroad on the pretext of health checkups after signing off the five-point deal. Thus, the enforcement of the five-point deal has been held up for more than three weeks.
Speaker Subash Nemwang did not show any courage to demonstrate his authority to use the force to bring the undisciplined NC lawmakers to the rule of law as he did in the case of small party lawmakers removing them from the parliament forcibly and suspending them for a week for not listening to his order in the immediate past. Political analysts ask whether this is the rule of law in Nepal, as lawmakers of the large party could take the law in their hands whereas the small party lawmakers could not even express their opposition views at the parliament.
Political analysts also say that the UCPN-Maoist leaders need to work hard on enforcing the five-point deal rather than engaged in power struggle within their party throwing the country into the political uncertainty; if they are sincere to the Nepalese people they need to expedite the peace process and the constitution writing. Political analysts also have warned the UCPN-Maoist leaders of not taking the regressive course as some leaders of other political parties have been doing.
