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Prime Minister Met With President Yadav and NC President Koirala
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On January 05, 2009, after meeting President Ram Baran Yadav, speaking to the reporters Prime Minister Prachanda said that he had talks with the President concerning the controversy over the new recruitment in the Nepali Army and the appointment of new priests to the vacant positions of priests at the Pashupati shrine.
Answering to the question of a reporter on whether the stay order of the Supreme Court of Nepal concerning the appointment of priests at the Pashupati shrine would be honored or not, Prime Minister Prachanda said that it would be honored.
The Prime Minister also went to meet with Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala at his Maharajgunj residence. Coming out of the meeting with Nepali Congress President Koirala, speaking to the reporters, Prime Minster Prachanda said that he had talks with President Koirala concerning the controversy over the new recruitment in the Nepali Army and the appointment of new priests to the vacant positions of priests at the Pashupati shrine and also about running the sessions of the Constituent Assembly smoothly. Members of the Constituent Assembly belonging to the Nepali Congress have been boycotting the sessions of the Constituent Assembly demanding the return of the properties grabbed by the Maoists during the 10-year period of conflict to the former owners; they also have been demanding the government to annul the appointment of the Nepalese priests to the vacant positions at the Pashupati shrine.
On January 6, 2009, in the morning news, the State-run Radio Nepal said that the total cash amount received from the offerings made to Lord Pashupati within the period of a few days of Nepalese priests had worked at the Pashupati shrine reached one hundred thousand rupees. It makes sense why the Nepali Congress leaders have been voicing against the appointment of the Nepalese priests at the Pashupati shrine.
