Annual budget session likely to be convened 8 June

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 3 June: The annual budget session of parliament is likely to be convened 8 June.
Chairman Subash Nemwang said this Thursday after consultations with embattled and beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.
President Dr Ram Baran Yadav, amid protests of main opposition Maoists, Thursday prorogued the ‘winter session’ of the legislature in mid-spring.
Confrontation between ruling parties and Maoists have resurfaced barely minutes and hours after a three-party agreement to extend the constituent assembly tenure (CA) by one year until 28 May 2011.
The three biggest parties usurped people’s powers for the second time to regularly elect people’s representatives and decide the nation’s future.
The two-year elected tenure of assembly members to draft a republican was extended by parliament members unilaterally without going to a vote to extend the CA tenure which lapsed.
A republic was earlier declared by a self-appointed parliament by a restored parliament through a ‘political decision’ of King Gyanendra under international and political party pressures.
Nepal is suffering he result of the politics of treachery of political parties.
Nepalese people and the economy are suffering the consequences of foreign interference in internal political affairs.
One analyst even said the political deadlock has propelled mental ldisorder amongst people unable to bear sufferings.
UNMIN represents foreign government representation in a county that was never colonized.
Foreign governments are exerting maximum pressures on a reluctant government to extend tenure of agencies of the world body.
Amid pressures from world capitals to extend the tenure of OHCHR that ends 9 June, government hasn’t fallen prey to stubborn foreign prodding.
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