Three party summit Monday

Kathmandu, 13 Dec: A summit meeting of three major parties, UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and UML is being held at the UML’s parliamentary party Monday before Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal leaves for Denmark Monday.
The leaders are meeting after the failure of a six-member task force to find an assigned outlet to the six-month impasse.
Maoists have pushed a new proposal – Dr Ram Baran Yadav personally address Maoist concerns for what thy call parliamentary supremacy in a presidential address.
Maoists have also proposed an amendment in the interim constitution clearly defining the limits of the ceremonial president’s powers.
The president acted to retain sacked Army Chief Gen Rukmangud Katawal art the request of 18political parties.
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Rift developing between prime minister and defence minister

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 13 Dec.: A rift is developing between Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Defence Minister Bidya Bhandari who has been firmly behind the state army since her appointment.
Bhandari has supported the army position Maj. Niranjan Basnet should be tried by a military court which had earlier cleared him for alleged involvement in the death of a woman teenager in Kavre during the Maoist insurgency.
The UN this week returned Major Basnet from Chad where he was attached with the Nepali UN peacekeeping mission.
The UN asked the government to present the major before a civil court which had earlier found him guilty for involvement in the death of the woman.
The army Sunday refused a police request to hand him over for presentation before the Kavre district court Sunday.
Prime Minister Nepal directed the defence minister to handover the major to police—a directive disregarded by Bhandari,
There were differences between Bhandari and Nepal over the promotion of Maj Gen Toran Bahadur Singh as well.
The prime minister is sitting over a file recommending Singh’s promotion.
The government has been pressurized by several countries to book Singh for alleged involvement in human rights abuse in the army.
The UN and several western countries pressurizing the government haven’t demonstrated concern with Maoist abuses of human rights abuses.
They are in fact promoting their involvement in government and society.
The tussle between the premier and defence minister has surfaced when the government is flying for Denmark and in the absence of Army Chief Gen Chatraman Singh Gurung who is in India.
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CHATTER

“The prime minister and the home minister boast loudly they will take action against those involvement in battering a woman journalist in Rukum when they are protecting a woman state minister by shielding her even when she abused Parsa CDO.”

(Housewife Sita Dahal.)

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“The Maoists are not alone to challenge the national sovereignty. The western powers too are teasing the country’s integrity. Taking the advantage of chaotic political environment, the foreign diplomats are undiplomatically involving in those affairs that require permission from the government.”

(Ritu Raj Subeddi, TheRising Nepal, 14 Dec.)
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