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Ruling And Opposition Parties Continues Showdown
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 26, 2013: speaking at the fifth district convention of the Bhaktapur district committee of the UCPN-Maoist at Taumadhi today, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda said that the Maoist party was committed to hold the CA polls by mid-Jestha (May 29), and asked the major opposition parties such as NC and CPN-UML for building a consensus on holding elections to a new CA. He said that his party was ready to quit the government if the opposition parties were ready to hold elections in May, according to the news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
At the same function held in Bhaktapur, Chairman Prachanda has said that the opposition protests against his party have helped unite members of the Maoist party, and thanked the opposition for helping forge unity in his party writes nepalnews.com today. "We have been saying that Gyanendra (former king) made it possible for us to usher in a republican set up through his mistakes. Now, the opposition, through its 'mistake' is helping us unite," nepalnews.com quotes Chairman Prachanda as saying today.
The cadres of the so-called democratic parties such as NC and CPN-UML had attempted on blocking the road at Sallaghari in Bhakatpur to stop the motorcade of Chairman Prachanda and Prime Minister Dr. Baburma Bhattari entering Bhaktapur. These NC and CPN-UML cadres don’t know that blocking road is both illegal and undemocratic. If the NC and CPN-UMl leaders are seriously democratic they need to teach the code of democratic principles and norms to their cadres.
The NC has said that dozens of its cadres have been injured as the police used force and resorted to beating the protestors during a demonstration against Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai at Sallaghari, Bhaktapur today morning. Following the blocking of the road by the opposition cadres at Sallaghari, the motorcade of Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda and Prime Minister Bhattarai was forced to change the route to drive to Bhaktapur town to attend the Bhaktapur district convention of their party, according to the RSS, and THT ONLINE news of today.
Speaking at the opening function of the two-day international conference on legal issues held by the Nepal Bar Association (NBA) today, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav said that Nepali people's desire for getting a new constitution through the Constituent Assembly could not be met as the political parties failed to build a consensus on time; then, there was no alternative to the political parties to working together to draft a new constitution as per the people's aspirations for ending the current transition in the country, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
“Our party has not threatened any journalist in Dailekh,” Spokesperson for UCPN-Maoist Agni Sapkota said yesterday refuting the media reports on the Maoist cadres had threatened the reporters engaged in campaigning for the prosecution of the perpetrators of the murder of reporter Dekendra Thapa in 2004. “As the party spokesperson, I would like to request all so-called displaced journalists to return to the district. For this, the party assures security,” Spokesman Sapkota said at a press meet held at the Maoist headquarters in Kathmandu, according to THT ONLINE news of today.
Talking to journalists in Bharatpur, Chitwan yesterday, NC leader Arjun Narsingh KC said that the opposition parties' anti-government demonstrations were for ensuring free and fair elections; the opposition parties were forced to opt for protests after the ruling UCPN-Maoist denied forging a consensus to give a way out to the present stalemate, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
Speaking at the press conference held by the Madhesi Journalists' Society of the Saptari chapter in Saptari today, Minister for Health and Population-cum-Chairman of the Sadbhawana Party Rajendra Mahato has stressed the need for promulgating a federal democratic and republican constitution; the political transitional period would further drag on if the parties were not to work honestly to settle the current political crisis. Minister Mahato said that his party was for forming an election government headed by a civil society leader or an independent person for the next three months if political parties were failed to find a consensus candidate, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
Speaking at the meeting of his party cadres in Parbat yesterday, Vice-president of NC Ram Chandra Poudel said that the struggle of the opposition parties would continue until the government became ready for formation of a consensus government for holding the election. Vice-president Poudel warned the ruling Maoist party of meeting the fate of ex-king Gyanendra if it failed to address people's demand for a constitution, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
