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Reactions To President’s Warning Of Not Staying Idle
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 15, 2012: “If parties fail to reach to an understanding over the contentious issues at the earliest, I shall intervene; I am not only a patron of constitution I have also a duty to safeguard achievements attained through different democratic revolution,” ‘THT ONLINE‘ quotes Head of State Dr. Ram Baran Yadav as saying while inaugurating the Chamber Day 2012 amidst a function held by Nepal Chamber of Commerce in Kathmandu on October 13, 2012.
In respond to this statement of the Head of State Dr. Yadav and to the statement he would not remain idle after the deadline of October 16 set by the political parties to build a consensus, talking to reporters at the Biratnagar airport yesterday, Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai made it clear that the figurehead President’s warning did not make any difference, as the Interim Constitution had not given him any executive prerogative, according to ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE. “The President should not use the conflict among parties as a pretext to engage in active politics,” ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ quotes Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai as saying.
The prime minister accused the President of trying to create friction between the parties instead of helping them come closer to a political consensus. Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai remarked that the parties would not accept the President’s order. “We will accept only people’s decision and directive not the President’s,” ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ quotes the prime minister as saying.
Yesterday General Secretary of CPN-UML Ishwor Pokharel said that President Dr Ram Baran Yadav did not have any constitutional right to intervene in the political affairs; CPN-UML’s leader Pokhrel was responding to the warning of the head of the state ‘he would not stay idle if the political parties did not build a consensus by the self-imposed deadline of October 16, 2012’ according to ‘THT ONLINE’.
