Main opposition charges Maoists not serious on drafting constitution

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 15 Nov: One day before the constituent assembly (CA) begins work on drafting a new constitution, man opposition Nepali Congress charged CPN (Maoist) is not interested in drafting it.
Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala Saturday told a rally in Birgunj, “Maoists are raising new issues to sideline the work of drafting a constitution.”
Koirala charged Maoists are giving alibis for to delay writing the constitution.
Nearly one dozen central leaders, including Koirala, in their speeches attacked Maoists who have been charged for attempting to impose Stalinist-type people’s republic on the country.
Koirala said Congress blowing the bugle to complete the constitution drafting process in time in the next 18 months.
The national awareness campaign the Congress began in Biratnagar is infact a jihad against Maoists who toppled the Koirala government following the 10 April CA election emerging as the larghest party in the assembly.
The rally in Birgunj was the party’s second public meet.
Koirala’s deputy former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said Congress will prevent and never allow the integration of Maoist PLA and Nepal Army.
Other leaders and Maoists have said integration is needed and necessary to complete a peace process begun inn 2005.
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Minister Jha said govt., rebel talks to beheld in Janakpur

Kathmandu, 15 Nov: Local Development Minister and member of a three-member government negotiating team Raam Chandra Jha said Saturday talks will be held with terai rebels ‘soon’ but still unspecified date in Janakpur in the south to address regional demands.
Jha said government has maintained contacts with 11/12 groups and added ‘talks ae going on smoothly’.
He said conditions aren’t acceptable to begin a dialogue and rejected UN mediation demanded by some rebel groups.
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Former security personnel come out on streets

Kathmandu, 15 Nov: Former soldiers and policemen forced to quit their jobs by Maoists during the insurgency before 2005, came out of the streets in the far-West demanding reinstatement.
They disrupted movement of vehicles on highways in the region.
During the people’s war, Maoists forced the security personnel to resign from their jobs promising to reinstate them after toppling the regime.
Former security personnel, many defectors, demanded reinstatement as promised.
The ‘rebellion’ has come as an embarrassment for the Maoists now in power.
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