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Senior Leader Madhav Nepal Selected for Prime Minister
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On May 10, 2009, Senior Leader of Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist and Leninist (CPN-UML) Madhav Kumar Nepal has been selected for the possible position of the Prime Minister of a majority government to be formed under the leadership of the CPN-UML after the resignation of Prime Minster Prachanda on May 4, 2009 protesting the President’s unconstitutional action of writing a letter to the Chief of Army Staff and ordering him to stay on in the job bypassing the government.
The irony is that Madhav Kumar Nepal has no people’s mandate for leading the government, as voters have rejected his candidacy in both the constituencies: Kathmandu and his home district Siraha in the election for a Constituent Assembly held on April 10, 2008; obviously, selecting Mr. Nepal for the position of the Prime Minister, the CPN-UML leaders have overstepped the people’s suzerainty.
On May 10, 2009, Caretaker Prime Minister Prachanda has said that he is not going to head a new government even if the UCPN-Maoist gets another chance of leading a new government, and his colleagues will lead such a government if it happens.
The Madheshi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF) made public its decision on supporting a new government stating it will support the party that will support its demand for ‘Autonomous Madhesh Province’. The Nepali Congress (NC) leaders might not have any problem of supporting such a demand of the MPRF, as its current President and Former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has signed an eight-point agreement with the United Democratic Madheshi Front on February 28, 2008 agreeing to ‘Autonomous Madhesh Province’; however, he has never been serious to enforce this agreement; CPN-UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal has been precluding the possibility of forming any such ‘Autonomous Madhesh Province’; so, the CPN-UML leaders might have difficulty in agreeing on the MPRF’s demand if they stick to their previous stand on the Madhesh issue.
