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Never-ending Election And Nepalese Politics
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 15, 2010: following the recommendation of officiating Prime Minister Madhav Nepal, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has conferred Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia with Mahaujjwal Rastradeep Manpadavi today pursuant to the Article 152 of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007, for his special contribution to the welfare of Nepal, myrepublica.com writes.
On November 16, 2010, myrepublica.com writes that the Saudi prince has cancelled his meeting with the President and the Prime Minister after he has found that the Government of Nepal has not decided yet to confer on him the highest honor any foreign nationality can receive, and moved on to Bhutan and then to back home.
The leaders of the major three political parties UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML have sat together at the Gokarna Forest Resort today for the third round of talks after the Hattiban resort talks held on November 5 and 6 to build a consensus on the peace process, constitution writing and forming a new government. They have deferred the 17th round of election to a new prime minister scheduled for today to November 19, and hold another round of talks on November 18. The Business Advisory Council (BAC) of the parliament has postponed the 17th round of the prime ministerial election scheduled for November 15 to November 19.
In the meeting they have also agreed on forming a sub-committee with the members of former Finance Ministers such as Dr. Baburam Bhattarai of UCPN-Maoist, Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat of NC, and Bharat Mohan Adhikari of CPN-UML to build a consensus on some major issues concerning a new budget to be presented to the parliament, nepalnews.com writes.
Leaders of the NC have registered a note on the demand at the Secretariat of the parliament today for declaring their candidate Ram Chandra Poudel elected unopposed to a new Prime Minister. Breaching the rule of law, the joint meeting of Central Working Committee (CWC) and Parliamentary Party (PP) of NC held at Singha Durbar on Sunday afternoon, November 14, 2010 has decided to ask the House Speaker to declare Ram Chandra Poudel the winner of the election to a new Prime Minister following the verdict of the Supreme Court of Nepal that has simply drawn the attention of the House Speaker to complete the meaningless elections and review the process to bring an outcome of the election without delay in view of the political consequences.
On November 14, 2010, House Speaker Subash Nemwang has said that he cannot make any decision against the interim constitution, legislature-parliament regulations and other existing laws, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of November 15, 2010 writes quoting the state news agency RSS. “I have not any special rights or autocratic rights to move ahead against these legal provisions, Speaker Nemwang made it clear adding, "Whatever proposal I bring in the legislature-parliament, it will not be passed but rendered meaningless if the political parties fail to forge consensus." He has said that the consensus politics is the only way to run the Constituent Assembly and the legislature-parliament following the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007. He farther said that the process of election to a prime minister moves ahead holding discussions with all political parties and the Business Advisory Committee tomorrow.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the parliament has subpoenaed officiating Prime Minister Madhav Nepal to inquire about the aircraft purchase deal Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has reached without following the procurement laws, nepalnews.com writes. The PAC has decided so after the several news papers have reported that officiating Prime Minster Madhav Nepal and Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Rameshwor Khanal have vested interest in purchasing aircrafts for the NAC myrepublica.com writes. Madhav Nepal has been known for such deals to make money for him.
On November 14, 2010, the high-profile taskforce formed to build a consensus on the contentious issues concerning a new constitution has agreed on making provision for the rights to form political parties based on any sorts of ideology in a new constitution, nepalnews.com writes.
