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President Says Only Elections Are Alternative To Political Deadlock
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 2, 2012: speaking at the Fourth National AIDs Conference in Pokhara yesterday, President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav said, “Six years have passed since the successful people’s movement of 2006, our gains are yet to be institutionalized, yet. We have already missed a deadline to hold the Constituent Assembly election and if we fail again, it will only cost dear to the country,” writes HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE quoting the president as saying.
The President further said, “As our failure to hold the CA election soon will endanger our gains so far achieved, there is no option now for the political parties except to move ahead hand in hand. People want to see the statute drafted through the CA. The parties, therefore, should understand the people’s mood and immediately forge consensus to form a next government if the present government cannot hold the election,” he said.
The CPN-Maoist has joined the opposition coalition of the NC and CPN-UML to topple the current government rather than joining it to hold elections to a new CA to break the current political deadlock, as desired by the president.
The opposition leaders have not been able to choose a candidate for a new prime minister even after two days of the extended deadline for doing so. In order to cover up their weakness to choose a candidate for a new prime minister, some of the opposition leaders including Jhalanath Khanal of CPN-UML have said that they are not going to sit for talks to choose a consensus government until the prime minister quits the office. Thus, some of the political leaders have defied the call of the president to choose a consensus government.
The Nepalese political parties had set a bad precedent of not being able to form a new government even after eight months of Madhav Nepal resigning from the office of prime minister in the past. So, Nepalis cannot wait the political leaders squabbling for the office of prime minister indefinitely setting aside the most important job of crating a new constitution and crafting it for institutionalizing the federal democratic republic of Nepal.
Postponing the institutionalization of the federal democratic Republic of Nepal is clearly the work of those politicians that are not for institutionalizing the achievements made by the people’s movement of 2006. The front runner political is certainly Chitra Bahadur KC; other leaders such as Sushil Koirala and Ram Chandra Poudel of NC, Jhalanath Khanal of CPN-UML and so on are simply running after him.
