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Opposition Set To Protest While President Relaxes Deadline
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 15, 2013: the opposition coalition of nine political parties including the NC and CPN-UML today made public their 21-day protest programs starting off on January 19, 2013. At the meeting of the opposition parties held at the CPN-UML headquarters in Balkhu, the opposition concluded that the Baburam Bhattarai-led government had turned into authoritarian, and decided to hit the streets to dislodge it. The meeting blamed the government for repeatedly violating the law of the land, misusing state coffers, abusing power and blocking the process to form a consensus government, according to ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ of today. The opposition parties, however, said they would continue holding talks with the ruling alliance on the sidelines of their protests in a bid to form a consensus government following the Article 38 (1) of the Interim Constitution in line with the call of the President.
A press release issued by the Office of the President today said the President asked leaders of 18 political parties to translate their commitment to a consensus into action and forge a consensus as soon as possible, to hold fresh the Constituent Assembly election but he was not going to set any deadline. Leaders of 18 political parties that were part of the dissolved CA had reached Shital Niwas today to discuss political scenario with President Yadav, according to ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ of today.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the Visit Lumbini Year of 2012 in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha today, Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai said that the opposition had made bad efforts on disrupting the peace process by propelling the politics of revenge. The prime minister also accused the forces reluctant to accept peace and change of hatching conspiracy to fail the peace process; and Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai noted that a cold war was taking place between the pro-change and status-quo forces in the country, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
