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stopthewar · Mar 13, 2009 7:04 AM

tyo jangali pracahnde ko chak bata pasina nikalni parchha ani baal thaha pauchha sanghiyeta bhaneko ke ho bhanera too much of khate bhasan is nothing tou terrorist maoists do u understand? nepalnews.com Third round of Govt-Tharu talks fail; agitation to be intensified The third round of talks held Friday night between the government and agitating Tharu community failed due to a deadlock over the issue of replacing the term ‘Madhesh’ by ‘Terai’ in the interim constitution. The talks could not progress as the government refused to remove the term ‘Madhesh’ from the interim constitution, said an agitating leader Laxman Tharu after the talks. The government was ready to replace ‘Madhesh’ by ‘Terai-Madhesh’. Tharu community wanted the ‘Madhesh’ term removed altogether. ‘We can’t remove the term ‘Madhesh’ altogether,’ Peace Minister Janardan Sharma said. 'In the name of giving rights to one (organisation), we can’t deprive others’ of their rights.’ Various regional political parties based in the southern plains are against removing the term ‘Madhesh’ from the interim constitution. Madheshi Janadhikar Forum leader Jaya Prakash Gupta said on Thursday that his party would start an agitation if the term ‘Madhesh’ is removed from the constitution. The talks started at about 8 pm and ended about 11 pm at the peace ministry in Singha Durbar. Peace Minister Sharma has said efforts to solve the issue by talks would continue on Saturday. However, the agitators have said they would not hold another round of talks with the peace minister. ‘We will take part in the next round of talks only if the government team is led the Prime Minister,’ chairman of the Tharu Struggle Committee, Laxman Tharu said. Earlier, a meeting of various organisations participating in the agitation held Friday morning had formed a two-member talks team including Tharu and Lekhi. Lekhi had boycotted the second round of talks on Wednesday saying his organisation had not received a formal invitation for the talks. The government team was represented by Peace minister Jandardan Sharma and Water Resource minister Bishnu Poudel. Pasang Sherpa, chairman of Nepal Adiwasi Sangh was present to help the Tharu negotiators at the talks. The previous round of talks held on Wednesday had failed as the government could not agree on the agitator’s demand to guarantee a proportional reservation in all public services for ethnic groups on the basis of population. This issue was not raised on Friday as the talks could not progress ahead from the first agenda-the removal of ‘Madesh’ from the interim constitution. The agitation steered by Tharus and supported by various ethnic and indigenous communities have made life in the Terai as well as hilly districts extremely difficult. Raj Kumar Lekhi, general secretary of Tharu Kalyankarini Sabha, accused the government of not being serious towards their demands and announced to intensify the agitation. nepalnews.com ta Mar 14 09

CHYAME KANCHA · Mar 13, 2009 10:28 PM