RAM KUMAR KAMAT
"If the HLPC fails to reach a compromise on contentious issues‚ they should be left for the government to decide"
KATHMANDU: Unified CPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal told his party leaders today that Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala’s demand for the resignation of Chairman of Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi from the post of Chief Justice was a ploy to sabotage fresh Constituent Assembly elections.
Presenting a report at the Central Committee meeting on party’s production, construction and management policy adopted by Hetauda convention, Dahal said Koirala had signed the agreement letter along with three other leaders from the four forces that mandated formation of a new government under the chief justice and the NC president should stick to that commitment, UCPN-M CC member Ram Kumar Sharma told THT. “Koirala calls others spineless leaders but he himself is a weak leader,” Dahal said.
Party Spokesperson Agni Prasad Sapkota said Dahal told the CC meeting that the government was committed to holding CA elections but the NC and the CPN-UML were hell-bent on subverting the CA polls. “The government is committed to holding polls because it does not want to be branded as a failed government but the NC and the UML want to sabotage the polls,” Sapkota quoted Dahal as saying.
According to Sapkota, Dahal told party leaders that if the High Level Political Committee failed to reach a compromise on threshold for proportional representation seat and other contentious issues of election, the issues should be left for the government to decide.
Party sources said Dahal told party leaders that immediate neighbours –India and China — wanted CA polls to be held soon, and therefore polls would certainly be held even if other forces hatched a conspiracy against the poll process.
Three more reports were presented at the CC meeting today.
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Hit Raj Pandey presented reports on party’s organisational consolidation policy, war era cases and profiles of the CC members, respectively.
Mahara said the UCPN-M now should consider converting it from cadre-based party to a mass-based party. Rayamajhi told the meeting that the party must have clear opinion on how it wanted to deal with those who faced criminal cases. Pandey urged the party to prepare family and property details of the CC members.
Three former UML leaders –Ram Chandra Jha, Urmila Aryal and Lucky Sherpa, who had joined the UCPN-M a few weeks ago, were inducted into the UCPN-M Central Committee today. The CC will meet again on June 13.
Presenting a report at the Central Committee meeting on party’s production, construction and management policy adopted by Hetauda convention, Dahal said Koirala had signed the agreement letter along with three other leaders from the four forces that mandated formation of a new government under the chief justice and the NC president should stick to that commitment, UCPN-M CC member Ram Kumar Sharma told THT. “Koirala calls others spineless leaders but he himself is a weak leader,” Dahal said.
Party Spokesperson Agni Prasad Sapkota said Dahal told the CC meeting that the government was committed to holding CA elections but the NC and the CPN-UML were hell-bent on subverting the CA polls. “The government is committed to holding polls because it does not want to be branded as a failed government but the NC and the UML want to sabotage the polls,” Sapkota quoted Dahal as saying.
According to Sapkota, Dahal told party leaders that if the High Level Political Committee failed to reach a compromise on threshold for proportional representation seat and other contentious issues of election, the issues should be left for the government to decide.
Party sources said Dahal told party leaders that immediate neighbours –India and China — wanted CA polls to be held soon, and therefore polls would certainly be held even if other forces hatched a conspiracy against the poll process.
Three more reports were presented at the CC meeting today.
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Hit Raj Pandey presented reports on party’s organisational consolidation policy, war era cases and profiles of the CC members, respectively.
Mahara said the UCPN-M now should consider converting it from cadre-based party to a mass-based party. Rayamajhi told the meeting that the party must have clear opinion on how it wanted to deal with those who faced criminal cases. Pandey urged the party to prepare family and property details of the CC members.
Three former UML leaders –Ram Chandra Jha, Urmila Aryal and Lucky Sherpa, who had joined the UCPN-M a few weeks ago, were inducted into the UCPN-M Central Committee today. The CC will meet again on June 13.
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