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Wait Until The Ruling Of The Supreme Court On New Government
By KTM Metro Reporter
February 28, 2013: leaders of NC and CPN-UML have stopped the taskforce from doing anything until the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal on formation of a new government headed by the Chief Justice, as clearing off the way to the elections would be suicidal to them if the ruling would be against the formation of a new government headed by the Chief justice, according to HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of today.
The eight-member taskforce has prepared a 20-point draft of amending the Interim Constitution but leaders of four major parties have not discussed it, as they differed from each other whether to wait for the Supreme Court ruling on forming a government led by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi or not. A hearing on the writ against the formation of a government headed by the chief justice was set for March 7.
“If all the constitutional difficulties are removed by getting ordinances approved from the President before March 7 and if the court ruling comes against forming CJ Regmi-led government, it will be suicidal,” said NC and CPN-UML leaders. “This will create an easy situation for the Baburam Bhattarai-led government to continue. So we must wait for the court verdict,” sources quoted Minendra Rijal, a taskforce member representing NC, as telling Congress party’s internal meeting today, according to HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of today.
NC Central Working Committee yesterday decided that it would wait for the Supreme Court verdict and go accordingly to form the election government led by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi. After the CWC meeting held at the party President Sushil Koirala’s residence in Maharajgunj‚ NC spokesperson Dilendra Badu said‚ “We are ready to appoint chief justice as the chief executive for holding polls barring him from the activities of the judiciary. However‚ we will wait till the court’s decision and shall respect whatever it decides,” according to HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of yesterday.
CPN-UML’s Standing Committee is unanimous in the view that a government should be formed under Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi‚ according to party Vice-chairman Bamdev Gautam. “Standing Committee’s decision that a CJ-led government should be formed is in line with a recent decision taken by the party’s Central Committee‚” he said, according to HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE of yesterday.
