Mosque bombed; other details

By Bhola B Rana

Kahmandu, 30 March: A mosque was bombed overnight injuring four Muslims, two seriously, in Biratnagar, the hometown of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala who’s in the town to campaign for his daughter Sujata facing an uphill battle in the 10 April constituency assembly election.
Four persons in two motorcycles hurled four bombs and sped away as Defence Army took responsibility just 12 days ahead of the vote.
The bombing to disrupt the vote through communal violence was described by Koirala as an unprecedented election to introduce sweeping changes.
Minutes before the bombing, Koirala warned the country was heading for a huge accident with electoral violence and persistent misunderstanding between seven ruling parties.
"There will be big accident if present misunderstanding prolongs.
"I feel sad. Hardly had the ink dried on an agreement between seven parties, and clashes started," Koirala said referring to an agreement to stop electoral violence.
Koirala warned such differences and electoral violence with approaching election will be disastrous.
Meanwhile, talks between four tarai parties called off talks with government Saturday and disbanded a negotiating team for a dialogue with the government before the vote to end their violent independence movement head of the vote.
The parties announced the immediate resumption of their violent anti-government and anti-election campaign.
Government was pushing talks to create an environment for the vote to ensure maximum participation.
Low turnout will not give credibility to a constitution drafted by elected by elected candidates of seven parties; that’s why the talks with the four parties were important.
Violence will keep people away from polls.
"Talks have no meaning," Sanjaya Gupta said on behalf of four parties charging government of indifference to talks.
Parties said their anti-government activities will resume Sunday.
KOREAN CONNECTION
Meanwhile, Maoists protested to the Election Commission Saturday former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and minister of labour Ramesh Lekhajh were illegally by violating an election code of conduct were trying to buy votes by sending 31,000 Nepali workers to South Korea by buying votes.
The Maoists said the two-day language examination for the workers to qualify them to travel to Seoul that began Saturday was against the code.
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Mosque bombed; other details

By Bhola B Rana

Kahmandu, 30 March: A mosque was bombed overnight injuring four Muslims, two seriously, in Biratnagar, the hometown of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala who’s in the town to campaign for his daughter Sujata facing an uphill battle in the 10 April constituency assembly election.
Four persons in two motorcycles hurled four bombs and sped away as Defence Army took responsibility just 12 days ahead of the vote.
The bombing to disrupt the vote through communal violence was described by Koirala as an unprecedented election to introduce sweeping changes.
Minutes before the bombing, Koirala warned the country was heading for a huge accident with electoral violence and persistent misunderstanding between seven ruling parties.
"There will be big accident if present misunderstanding prolongs.
"I feel sad. Hardly had the ink dried on an agreement between seven parties, and clashes started," Koirala said referring to an agreement to stop electoral violence.
Koirala warned such differences and electoral violence with approaching election will be disastrous.
Meanwhile, talks between four tarai parties called off talks with government Saturday and disbanded a negotiating team for a dialogue with the government before the vote to end their violent independence movement head of the vote.
The parties announced the immediate resumption of their violent anti-government and anti-election campaign.
Government was pushing talks to create an environment for the vote to ensure maximum participation.
Low turnout will not give credibility to a constitution drafted by elected by elected candidates of seven parties; that’s why the talks with the four parties were important.
Violence will keep people away from polls.
"Talks have no meaning," Sanjaya Gupta said on behalf of four parties charging government of indifference to talks.
Parties said their anti-government activities will resume Sunday.
KOREAN CONNECTION
Meanwhile, Maoists protested to the Election Commission Saturday former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and minister of labour Ramesh Lekhajh were illegally by violating an election code of conduct were trying to buy votes by sending 31,000 Nepali workers to South Korea by buying votes.
The Maoists said the two-day language examination for the workers to qualify them to travel to Seoul that began Saturday was against the code.
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