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On March 27, 2009, speaking in Kathmandu, President of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala told the reporters that his party was not going to join the government, as the Maoists had not honored the past agreements and had not returned all the seized property to the former owners.
On March 27, 2009, speaking at the Nepal-China Media Forum, spokesman for the Government of Nepal Krishna Bahadur Mahara told that Prime Minister Prachanda would visit China at the end of April 2009 to strengthen the economic cooperation and friendship between the two countries. Prachanda’s government had successfully suppressed the voices of the Tibetan exiles in Nepal and stopped any sorts of rallies by them in Kathmandu on the occasion of commemorating the anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese rule in Tibet on March 12, 1959.
“Nepal is not a yam trapped between two boulders as claimed by past rulers. It is an independent country; we are Nepalese of a sovereign and independent country and we want to maintain our relationship with our neighbors on the basis of these facts,” Spokesman Mahara said according to the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’.
On March 27, 2009, Prime Minister Prachanda called Defense Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa and Chief of Army Staff General Rukmangud Katuwal at his official residence and asked them to work out ways to mitigate their growing differences. Both the defense minister and the army chief have been at odds concerning the recent retirement of eight brigadier generals and new recruitments for the Nepal Army in the past.
Integration of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with the Nepal Army is likely to happen soon, as the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) has formed a technical committee with two representatives each of four major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madheshi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF). Barshaman Pun and Dr Indrajeet Rai represent the UCPN-Maoist on the technical committee, retired General Balananda Sharma and Shambhuram Simkhada the Nepali Congress, retired Brigadier General Gopal Singh Bohara and Deepak Prakash Bhatt the CPN-UML and Rama Nanda Mishra and Sadananda Kurmi the MPRF.
The government decided to provide the hotel industry with the subsidy of Rs 10 per liter on the diesel used for generation of power stated the Minister of Tourism Hisila Yami. The government has already been providing the manufacturing industries with the subsidy of Rs 10 per liter on the diesel used for generation of power.
