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NC Opts For Fresh Elections
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 31, 2012: NC leaders at the central committee held today decided to go to the polls for freshly electing a CA rather than reviving the dissolved CA. Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel and Senior leader Sher bahadur Deuba had been for reviving the dissolved CA.
"The central committee meeting of the main opposition party held under the chairmanship of party president Sushil Koirala decided to go for fresh polls to end the current political and constitutional crisis," said Prakash Man Singh, general secretary of the party. "The party has also demanded formation of a national consensus government to ensure free and fair elections," he told PTI after the meeting.
"The CWC decided to go for fresh election," CWC Member Arjun Narsingh K.C told Nepalnews. According to him, some leaders proposed to remain open for further discussion on the option of CA reinstatement. However, majority of CWC members endorsed the proposal to go for election closing the debate on the possibility of reviving the CA writes nepalnews.com. The NC leaders also decided that only a consensus government should hold the fresh elections.
The Election Commission (EC) today said that the government needed to appoint election commissioners within a month if elections were to hold in April as proposed by some political parties. In addition, political parties should also clear off the legal hurdles to polls within November nepalnews.com quotes Acting EC Commissioner Nilkantha Upreti as saying.
Spokesman for UCPN-Maoist Agni Sapkota said today that the current government would hold fresh elections, as the parliament was not there to elect a new prime minister for forming a new government; if the head of State were to oust the current government it would be unfortunate; the UCPN-Maoist would go to the people, and everything would be settled from the streets, writes nepalnews.com
The ruling coalition of UCPN-Maoist and UDMF today decided to present the full-fledged budget for the FY 2012 to the Head of State for a presidential ordinance by mid-November no matter what the Head of State would do according to nepalnews.com
In a press statement issued yesterday, the Federation of Nepal Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) urged the political forces not to use the budget for political bargaining, but build a consensus on a full budget to prevent the country from the economic crisis writes nepalnews.com.
