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Opposition Leaders Went Mad At Budget And Poll-Date Announcement
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 21, 2012: leaders of the opposition coalition of NC and CPN-UML held a meeting at the Balkhu headquarters of the CPN-UML in Kathmandu to protest the budget released by the presidential decree and the government announcing the date for holding elections to a new CA.
The so-called opposition leaders said that they held the government accountable for the unilateral budget released through the presidential ordinance although the head of state had issued the presidential ordinance on it, and for unilaterally announcing the poll date. Although these leaders have spent more than four years talking to each other for building a consensus on the tricky matters concerning a new constitution but they could not build a consensus on these maters, as they stuck to their stand on the federalism and federal states. The opposition leaders are against the federalism and the federal states while the ruling coalition is for both the federalism and federal states. So, the opposition leaders are hypocritical in saying that they were close to building a consensus on the budget and the elections.
One of the greatest foe of the federalism: Chairman of the Rastriya Janamorcha Chitrabahadur KC had been totally disappointed by the release of the budget and his mind went blank after the election-date announcement, as he was sure that the federalists would win the game. Almost all the so-called opposition leaders are the bunch of the enemies of the federalism similar to Chitrabahadur KC.
At the meeting held at the residence of Sushil Koirala, NC leaders not only condemned the government but also the President for issuing the budget ordinance without a political consensus even though the president had been for building a consensus on the budget until the president issued the budget ordinance, according to the news posted on thehimalayantimes.com.
NC leaders also charged that the ruling coalition of the UCPN-Maoist and the UDMF had unilaterally introduced the budget and announced the poll date to remain in power. However, the fact is that the opposition coalition of the NC and the CPN-UML has extended the life of the ruling coalition for another period until the elections to a new CA are held.
The opposition leaders have said that they would intensify the street protests against the government. The real thing they need to do is to prepare for the elections to a new CA, and work with the government to remove the hurdles to holding the elections. However, they are doing just the opposite and obstructing the elections. They are determined to punish the common folks shutting down the traffic and regular businesses of the people even violating the fundamental human rights of the common folks to work and move around the country without hindrance. This is what the so-called democrats believe is the democracy.
“There must be something wrong in the approval as it contradicts his previous stand,” advocate Agni Kharel, a former CPN-UML lawmaker said. Kharel added that the Head of the State ate his own words. He had asked the government either to bring a full budget with consensus or bring a downsized budget as per the Article 96 A of the Interim Constitution if it could not forge consensus with political parties for a full budget, according to the news posted on thehimalayantimes.com.
"Formation of a national consensus government is a must to conduct the election in the announced time", the opposition leaders said, only the government of national consensus could remove constitutional and legal difficulties relating to the election process, and accused the government of bringing budget without the consent of the opposition parties,” according to the RSS.
Talking to the reporters in Nepalgunj today, General Secretary of the NC Krishna Prasad Sitaula said, “It is the sign that the government is moving towards autocracy by running the government unilaterally and bringing budget against the political consensus." He claimed the protest called by opposiiton parties would be against autocracy and added that his party NC would move ahead by respecting the democratic norms and values; however, his party would not participate in the elections declared by the current government, according to the news the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com.
Nepal Students' Union (NSU) affiliated to the NC has shown its muscle power enforcing an hour-long traffic shutdown at different government colleges in the Kathmandu Valley today morning punishing the common commuters for the budget its mother party disliked.
