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Recent Political Development In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 4, 2012: tomorrow, Head of State President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav is consulting with the leaders of the 27 political that had represented in the dissolved CA, on the elections to a new CA, and on the formation of an unity government. To this end, the office of the president has invited all the top leaders of the concerned political parties.
President of NC Sushil Koirala urged Head of State President Dr Ram Baran Yadav to take necessary actions to build a political consensus to avert the current political crisis. President Koirala said so while speaking to the NC trainees.
Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has realized the growing foreign hands in the Nepalese affairs, after the Chinese leaders told Chairman of CPN-Maoist Mohna Vaidhya Kiran not to go for federalism that might cause the breakdown of the country, and the visit of one of the leaders of the opposition Indian party to Nepal at the invitation of the office of the Head of State.
Speaking to a group of reporters at his Baluwatar official residence on Friday evening, August 3, 2012, Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai said that Chinese leader Ai Ping's recent remarks that federalism based on ethnic identity would not be favorable to Nepal was highly objectionable. He also revealed that Yaswant Sinha: a leader of India's main opposition, BJP, was in Kathmandu this week at the invitation of President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav and expressed dissatisfaction over the undermining of the diplomatic protocol by the office of the President.
NC leader Bilamendra Nidhi yesterday said that the next election should be for the Constituent Assembly (CA) as the constitution drafted by any other means would not be acceptable to all, and claimed that his party's decision on making Sher Bahadur Deuba the next Prime Ministerial candidate for unity government was still stand.
Despite the Supreme Court's order given on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, not to enforce the government decision on providing VIPs with lifelong-state benefits including luxury vehicles and apartment rents, ten former chief justices such as Bishwanath Upadhaya, Trilok Pratap Rana, Dilip Kumar Poudel, Keshab Prasad Upadhaya, Hari Prasad Sharma, Surendra Prasad Singh, Kedar Prasad Giri, Govind Bahadur Shrestha, Om Bhakta Shrestha and Mohan Prasad Sharma have not returned the state-owned vehicles to the government. Three former CJs Anup Raj Sharma, Ram Prasad Shrestha and Min Bahadur Rayamahi had returned the vehicles to the government before the SC order. Former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa also has not returned the government vehicle. (Source of these news items is Nepalnews.com)
Chairman of CPN-Maoist Mohan Vaidhya Kiran today warned that his party might take up arms if the political parties failed to build a political consensus on the issues of the constitution crafting. He also said that the five-point deal the political parties had reached lost its relevance and the new government to he headed by the NC leaders was irrelevant, too.
Head of State President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav today made it clear to the district presidents of the NC that he would only follow the constitution and would not do anything going beyond the constitution when the NC district presidents visited him and urged him to do something to break the current political deadlock. (Source of the last two news items is ‘Thehimalayantimes.com).
