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Shepherding Political Leaders To Consensus
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 11, 2013: the head of state President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav invited leaders of major parties to his office, and urged them to reach a consensus on forming a new government and going to elections to a new CA for crafting and promulgating a new constitution to institutionalize the achievements made by the people’s movements.
The president also informed them that the constitutional bodies and the judiciary have been working pretty below their capacities due to the lack of the political appointees to these bodies. So, the president asked them to suggest him how to make appointments to these bodies following the constitution.
NC leader Sujata Koirala today suggested her party to join the Baburam Bhattarai-led government to put an end to the political deadlock long plaguing the country. Speaking to journalists in Inaruwa today, leader Sujata said the nation was in badly need of a consensus for a way out of the prevailing political stalemate rather than fighting among the parties for the PM chair. “As consensus and cooperation is the need of the hour to bail the country out of the present crisis, the NC better quit its obsession for the post of prime minister and join the government to save the nation,” she said, according to ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ of today.
Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda in his political paper presented at the meeting of the party's general convention organizing committee has said that his party should strongly lobby for reinstatement of the Constituent Assembly "in order to prevent the country from sliding into deeper political mess". In the 100-page document being debated at the committee's meeting taking place at the party headquarters, Peris Danda, Chairman Prachanda said the party should continue efforts for consensus until Monday when the presidential deadline expires, but it should focus all its attention on CA revival after that, according to the spokesperson for UCPN-Maoist Agni Sapkota, writes nepalnews.com today.
