What Deuba spoke may not please the bahuns and Bahuns who support Maoists activities. But that's the bitter truth. Sometimes Deuba has guts to talk that way. About Election, indeed all the party should agree to go for election no matter what's the situation without fearing of deaths. The so called greatest democracy of USA can wait weeks and weks to decide who won the President post... why not Nepal.... conduct the elections wherever possible, no matter how many phases it would take. If the political parties truely believe in Democracy, they must do so. Otherwise, they are indeed looking for cheap popularity and power, as Ranabhat says. We all have made mistakes: PM Deuba Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that political parties and their leadership have made mistakes in the past 14 years in the course of constitutional and political exercise. Addressing a seminar on "Political Development and Constitutional Exercise in Nepal" on the eve of the Constitution Day, the premier said power games played by major political parties was mainly responsible for the acute political instability in the country. Referring to frequent changes in the governments in the post-1990 period, the Prime Minister said the tendency to rock the governments and change prime ministers frequently had also contributed to the present constitutional impasse. He also blamed the Maoists of `using' dalits, ethnic and indigenous communities in the name of 'revolution.' "The Maoists -whose 80 percent leadership belongs to Bahun community-claim to have been championing the cause of dalits and janajatis," said Deuba. He also alleged that the Maoists were not sincere towards their own 40-point demands. "All they want is interim government and the constituent assembly," he said. Prime Minister Deuba said women, children and indigenous communities now had more say in bureaucracy and decision making under the present constitution. "We are moving towards an inclusive society," he added. "Democracy is a self-correcting system. We can resolve all the problems being faced by the country in a non-violent and democratic way," he added. The premier blamed major political parties of not getting ready to go for elections. "You talk of saving democracy but fear from going to elections. How can this be justified?" asked the premier. "When other people are dying, why should not we?" he asked. Addressing the meet, Speaker of the dissolved House of Representatives, Taranath Ranabhat, said it was pity that the governance in the country was being run through decree and ordinances. "Our constitution doesn't visualize a situation when governments are run without parliament. But in a strange way, we are running governments under Article 127 of the constitution for over two years now," he said. The Speaker said it was wrong to blame the present constitution to conceal what he said 'our own mistakes.' "Sort of competition is going on for cheap popularity and to show off oneself as revolutionary by blaming the present constitution," said Ranabhat. "If we are talking of the rule of law, there can't be a better document than this," he added. Saying that weak and hungry people could not sustain national integrity, Speaker Ranabhat said the King and political leadership should also understand this reality. "Are the King and responsible political parties ready in order to end the 'crisis of confidence'?" he asked. He insisted that through appropriate amendments, the constitution of the kingdom of Nepal, 1990, was capable to resolve the country's problems including Maoist insurgency. Noted constitutional expert and chairman of Nepal Law Society, Kusum Shrestha, said the present constitution was a meeting point of democracy and nationalism. "The leaders should think about how to protect nationality and democracy in a strategically-situated country like Nepal," he advised. Premier Deuba, who looked in a relaxed mood, arrived this morning to inaugurate the conference amid reports that he was spending a family holiday at a resort- hotel at the outskirts of Kathmandu. He also interacted with lawyers, journalists and academics for a while after the inaugural session was over.nepalnews.com by Nov 07 04