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NC Leaders Pushing President To Violate the Constitution
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 22, 2012: At the meeting held with top leaders of NC such as President of NC Sushil Koirala, senior leader of NC Sher Bahadur Deuba and Vice-President of NC Ram Chandra Paudel at the Shital Niwas presidential office today morning, Head of State President Dr Ram Baran Yadav told all political parties to break the current political deadlock at the earliest, as it had increased the rift among the political parties at this critical juncture the country stood. President Yadav said that bringing budget, special laws, and carrying out other important activities of the government through the presidential ordinances would only send a wrong signal. So, the political parties should form a new national government building a political consensus among them at the earliest.
At the meeting, the senior NC leaders had urged the President to take appropriate initiative to end the current political stalemate in the country. In response, the Head of State told them that he was bound by the constitution not to directly interfere in the country’s politics or breach the constitutional provisions, but would continue to play a role of a facilitator in bailing the country out of the political impasse.
Speaking to the reporters at a press conference held to inform about the decisions made by the extended central committee meeting at the party headquarters in Perishdanda, Kathmandu today, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda said that Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai would not quit the office until the political parties build a political consensus on the remaining disputed issues related to the constitution drafting process and the promulgation of a new constitution. He also made it clear that Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai was not the obstacle to building a political consensus; he quits the office immediately after the political parties build a consensus.
The Election Commission (EC) today held a meeting with the top leaders of the three major political parties such as Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda, Vice-President of NC Ram Chandra Paudel and Chairman of CPN-UML Jhalanath Khanal at its Kantipath office to build a consensus on amending the constitutional provisional and related acts within a week or else it would be impossible to hold the CA election on November 22 this year.
Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda today directed the party secretariat to return the expensive vehicle the government has provided him with for personal use. He had yesterday announced that he would leave his Lazimpat residence, turn over all his property to the party and return the state-owned vehicle. (Source of all news items is nepanews.com)
Senior leader of the CPN-UML Madhav Nepal said that the current government led by the UCPN-Maoist was an obstacle to institutionalizing democracy and change in the nation. He further said that the election to the Constituent Assembly was impossible in the current circumstance, writes ‘The Himalayan Times’ quoting the state-news agency RSS.
Comments: the question is whether Mr. Madhav Nepal understands democracy or not, if he does, he would never say an election to a new CA is impossible. Mr. Madhav Nepal and his accomplices apparently understand democracy as the grabbing of the state power by any means.
In a press conference held by the Independent Journalist Union Nepal Kaski Chapter in Pokhara today, former-Army Chief Gen. Rookmangud Katuwal has said that Nepal Army can capture the state power if the transition period goes on any longer; the constitutional sector is in a paralyzed situation, and in this situation the Nepal Army can take over the state authority into its control by capturing the power, writes ‘The Himalayan Times’.
Comments: the government needs to immediately take actions against Mr. Katuwal and find out what is his intention in telling such thing, if the news is correct, and if he has really such an intention, Mr. Katuwal should be charged for speaking against the people’s sovereignty.
With the deadline set by the Election Commission for the amendment to the poll laws necessary for the November election expiring on Sunday, Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said that the EC was preparing for granting one more week as a grace time for the government to complete amending the legal provision. “We can be little flexible to grant government a period of grace as there are instances of great changes in Nepal’s history forging consensus in a short period of time,” ‘The Himalayan Times’ of July 21, 2012 quotes Yadav as saying. He also informed that the EC would officially decide it on the meeting to be held on Sunday.
At the same time, the CPN-Maoist headed by Vaidhya has unleashed its students to terrorize the high schools across the country. The newly formed students' wing of CPN-Maoist announced a two-day nationwide shutdown of all private higher secondary schools demanding to remove foreign names of all private Higher secondary schools across the country. All private Higher Secondary Schools across the country remained closed today due to the shutdown enforced by All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), writes Nepalnews.com today. Earlier, the Students had carried out vandalism at two colleges in the capital in a bid to exert pressure for removing their foreign names in the Everest Florida College at Meenbhawan and at the Rato Bangla College in Lalitpur according to nepalnews.com.
