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NC Poised to Launch Movement
BY KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
Disregarding the mandate given by the electorates in the election held for the Constituent Assembly in April 2008 for going all political parties together to craft a new constitution, the Nepali Congress (NC) stayed on in the opposition in the legislature-parliament. Then, some of the leaders have opted for a movement starting at the Constituent Assembly.
So, the NC leaders headed by Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel as the starting point of their movement went to Prime Minister Prachanda and submitted a nine-point memo to him with the demands such as the government implement the past agreements, immediately return the properties seized by the Maoists during the decade-long insurgency, scrap the paramilitary structure of the Maoist youth wing called Young Communist League (YCL) and reconstitute the Special Committee set up by the government on integration of Maoists’ combatants with the Nepali Army on the political consensus.
NC leaders have been saying in public that their movement would start with the obstruction of sessions of the Constituent Assembly then they would take the movement to the streets if the government does not meet their demands. However, youth leader Gagan Thapa said that the NC leaders reaching the age of the retirement needed not play on the future of the youths.
