Further details on continuing political crisis

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 19May: Chairman Prachanda is at a resort in Dhulikhel preparing an agenda for the party central committee meeting two days later.
Senior officials of NC are huddled in a meeting to discuss an alternative to the government and extending the tenure of the constituent assembly (CA) that ends 28 May.
‘They should mind their own business… No one is overlord here. We don’t want any new colonizers here.
“We will not tolerate any high-handedness. Instruction, interference and undiplomatic words are not acceptable to us.,” an angry Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal told London’s Financial Times.
He warned foreigners ‘trying to appease Maoists’.
Nepal said this as the entire Kathmandu-based diplomatic corps discussed the impending crisis with the Maoist chairman.
Ambassadors and representatives of foreign countries and organizations have also been meeting government ministers.
The ruling parties and opposition have failed to manage change from constitutional monarchy to a republic within the two-year timeframe given by the people.
The ruling parties are attempting to usurp the right of the people to elect assembly members with a parliamentary extension of the CA.
Such usurpation of people’s right has become routine.
The parties, with foreign pressure, forced King Gyanendra through a ‘political decision’ to restore parliament whose five-term had ended.
That parliament through an act of treachery abolished monarchy.
People are suffering as a result of foreign interference and the ineptitude of political parties and leaders.
Political parties and leaders are the only beneficiaries of the prolonged transition.
A constitution won’t be promulgated even in the next 10 years if the differences between political parties continue.
The fight is between genuine liberal democracy, rule of law and extreme communism.
Political parties and leaders haven’t demonstrated democratic culture.
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