Posted by: wikalp October 18, 2007
Maoists will rejoin govt after Dashain
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Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula has claimed that the Maoists would rejoin the government after the Dashain festival.

Talking to Kantipur at the Biratnagar Airport on his way to his home district Jhapa, Sitaula also claimed that the new date for the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections will also be fixed shortly after the Dashain, which ends next week.

Home Minister Sitaula is also a senior NC leader who played an important role in forging the alliance of the parliamentary parties and the Maoists that led to the April uprising.

The Maoists quit the coalition government on … after Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala-led Nepali Congress (NC) did not agree on the new “pre-requisites” demanded by the Maoists for “meaningful” CA elections.

The Maoists have even summoned the special session of the interim parliament to fulfill their key demands--immediately declare the country a republic and make a provision for a proportional representation system of voting for the CA elections.

The poll has also been put off indefinitely and the country is facing political and constitutional crisis due to the stand-off between the NC and the Maoists.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Sitaula reiterated that the government will take all seven parties on board to deal sternly with the groups unleashing violence, abductions, extortions and murders in the Terai.

When asked about the government’s effort to find the whereabouts of journalist Birendra Sah, Sitaula said that the government was “hopeful about disclosure of his whereabouts” as the home administration has intensified the search and parliament has also formed a panel to probe his case.

A parliamentary panel was formed on Tuesday to find the whereabouts of journalist Sah, who was abducted 13 days ago from Bara district by the Maoist cadres.

Expressing concern over the failure to find the whereabouts of journalist, a meeting of the parliamentary Human Rights and Social Justice Committee held in the presence of Speaker Subash Nembang formed a four-member panel led by lawmaker Urmila Aryal.

Sah, a Bara based journalist- affiliated to Nepal FM, Dristri Weekly and Avenues TV was abducted by Maoist cadres on October 5 from Pipara Bazaar, Kalaiya VDC-6, the district headquarters of Bara.


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