Home Minister Gautam to give statement on Ram Hari Shrestha murder case

Kathmandu, 10Nov: Home Minister Bamdev Gautam is also to give a statement on the murder of Kathmandu businessman Ram Hari Shrestha in the constituent assembly (CA) Monday following a ruling by the assembly chairman.
Suspected Maoists murdered Shrestha whose house some Maoists had rented; Shrestha was close with Maoists.
Defence Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal Sunday denied reports he met with a murder suspect during a visit to Chitwan where he admitted he met other PLA staffers.
Eyewitnesses said the Badal contradiction is ‘ 100 percent lie,” according to a Kantipur report from Bharatpur filed by Binod Tripathi.
“I am surprised by Minister Thapa’s statement,” Nepal Journalist Federation Chitwan unit Chairman Krishna Giri told Kantipur.
Giri claimed Kham, a murder suspect drove in a while jeep to meet Thapa who visited Chitwan.
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PM Prachanda to meet Indian counterpart in New Delhi

Kathmandu, 10 Nov: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda will hold discussions with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in the sidelines of the summit of BIMSTEC in New Delhi from Thursday.
Prachanda and Singh 2ill meet Thursday; they first meet in the Indian capital during a bilateral visit in September.
Prachanda leaves for the Indian capital Wednesday and returns Friday.
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav is also attending summit.
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Top Congress leader lashes out at UMNIM, Ian Martin

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 10 Nov: Top main opposition leader and former home minister Govinda Raj Joshi lashed out at UNMMIN and its Chief Ian Martin at a time when the UN mission’s mandate expires 23 January 2009.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sought its extension during a Nepal visit this month.
“We believed at the beginning UMNIM would play an independent role to take the peace process to its logical end and help conduct free elections. But, UMNNIM didn’t fulfill both roles.
“UNMIN went to people targeted against it by Maoists and incited them. It didn’t go [during 10 April CA election] to electoral constituencies of candidates who promoted Maoists Monitoring should have been done at places.
“UNMIN stayed throughout the day in my constituency and incited voters against me. They didn’t visit Ram Chandra Paudel’s neighbouring constituency; he is a prominent leader,” Joshi said.
Asked by Nepal newsmagazine why it took so long for the party to expose UNMIN, Joshi said,” We knew this immediately. But unified Congress came to the realize this only after the vote. Everybody known our party is split vertically. Even now there’s a big influence of Maoists in our party. Maoists still run our party.”
Joshi charged UNMIN Chief Ian Martin for being a communist.
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“Unity has been disturbed; but it won’t affect unity. Emotional unity [in Nepali Congress] is still elusive.”

“NC President Girija Prasad Koirala, Kanipur, 10 Nov.)

“The encouraging agents of revenue leakage are the political leadership, the bureaucracy and the taxpayer. For controlling corruption, first political leadership should be clean because corruption becomes rampant when the corrupt government employees get protection from the political leadership.”

(Finance Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai, The Rising Nepal, 10 Nov.)


“We believe everyone and anyone from outside this nation, no matter how poorly qualified and inexperienced, knows better than Nepalis themselves what they need or how things should be developed.”

“The wanderer, newsfront, 10 Nov.)