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Second Casualty of the CA Result
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On April 13, 2008, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist and Leninist (CPN-UML) tendered his resignation to his party stating his responsibility for the CPN-UML’s defeat in the election for a Constituent Assembly (CA). He also has lost the election not only in the Kathmandu constituency but also in his home district constituency, too.
Nepalese voters have ousted the CPN-UML leader for his volatile position on various national and international issues. After the general election in 1994, he has faulted not forming a coalition government with the second largest party NC in the then-parliament despite the fact that his party had garnered only more seats than any other parties in the then-parliament but not the majority. Similarly, he refused to have an electoral alliance with the CPN-Maoist in April 2008 leading to the defeat of his party in the election for a CA held on April 10, 2008.
Now, his party has pulled out of the current coalition government headed by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on a moral ground. His party should not have joined the then-king-appointed Deuba government in June 2004 on the moral ground if the party has been morally sound.
If the CPN-UML does not cooperate with other parties in the CA and becomes a hurdle in crafting a new constitution, Nepalese people will not forgive the CPN-UML leaders.
