MAOIST 6th PLENUM BEGINS IN GORKHA SUNDAY

Kathmandu, 21 Nov.: The 6th plenum of main opposition UCPN (Maoist) will be inaugurated at Palaungtar in Gorkha Sunday afternoon after separate meetings of the party’s standing and central committees.
The standing committee meet began in the morning at Thado Pokhari in Palungar.
The central committee will meet after the standing committee meet concludes.
The plenum will adopt the party’s strategy as a political impasse continues. country.
Chairman Prachanda and Vice-chairmen Dr Baburam Bhattarai are pushing their perceptions and strategies for a communist state.
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PM LEAVES FOR RUSSIA SUNDAY NIGHT

Kathmandu, 21 Nov.: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal flies for St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday night to attend an international conservation conference to draw a strategy to save and protest the endangered tiger found in 13 states in Europe and Asia.
Nepal is one of the 13 tiger range countries.
At the conference, Nepal will seek a $43 million international
support to conserve and double the country’s cat population in the
next 10 years.
PM Nepal, who has been a caretaker after resigning 30 June, is attending the conference shelving previous pledge not to travel abroad as n unelected government chief.
Even after 16 rounds of parliamentary elections, parliament
couldn’t elect Nepal’s successor through majority vote.
President Dr Ram Baran Yadav, on the recommendation of the prime minister, dramatically prorogued the budget session of the
legislature Friday night after Maoists encircled Finance Minister Surendra
Pandey in parliament and mauled him to prevent the presentation the annual budget.
The Rs 339.9 billion budget for the remaining nine months of the current fiscal year 2010/11 was then promulgated by the president
Saturday without parliament in session.
Such a budget has to be presented to parliament for approval in two months.
Nepal is flying for Russia where he’s expected to meet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the tiger conference amid political crisis at home.
Maoists are attempting to gain power by replacing Nepal with a government tem led by the main opposition while NC, the main ruling
coalition partner of Nepal’s UML party, is trying to replace
Madhav Kumar with Ram Chadra Pandel.
Nepal flies for Russia Sunday night without support of the
coalition or the main opposition Maoists.
The prime minister now has plans to travel abroad with a vengeance after staying at home for more than four months because of internal political crisis.
After returning from Russia 26 November, the government chief will fly to Cambodia to address the international conference of Asian political parties or ICAPP to return home 4 December,
He’ll jet set for Brussels the same evening to attend a conference of the world’s least developed countries in the Belgian capital.
Nepal cancelled announced schedule to attend the September
session of the UN general assembly as a caretaker.
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PEACE AGREEMNT NOT IMPLEMNTED IN FOUR YEARS; GIRIJA BIT MORE THAN HE COULD CHEW

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 21 Nov.: A comprehensive 12-point New Delhi between Nepal’s then parliamentary parties and India-based Maoists has not been fully implemented even four years after it was signed four years ago.
Over 19,000 combatants under watch in UNMIN cantonments and satellite camps have been integrated in the state security agencies or society.
The processes to be completed in six months haven’t been implemented.
UNMIN-invited by Nepal’s political parties, including Maoists- leaves 15 January 2011 leaving the processes in limbo.
UNMIN represents foreign influence in a country which was never colonized.
Only a constituent assembly (CA)/parliament was held April 2008 – a vote that propelled UCPN (Maoist) to the forefront of mainstream politics.
The CA failed to promulgate a constitution to institutionalize a declared republic even two years after the vote; the assembly’s elected term was extended 28 May 2010 by one year.
Not a single article on a proposed constitution has been agreed on by parties nearly six months after the extension.
Non-Maoist parties are attempting to foil a Maoist strategy to impose a communist state on Nepal—an attempt Maoists they failed to achieve through the 10-year insurgency.
Even if a constitution is promulgated in the remaining six months, it won’t be a document written and drafted by an elected body.
Maoists emerged as the largest political party embarrassing the political parties, including NC and UML—the biggest parliamentary parties before the vote.
Suspicious were immediately raised—the seeds of the discord between the main political players now.
Girija Prasad Koirala, the main Nepali architect of a foreign/political strategy to topple monarchy and bring Maoists into the political
mainstream is dead leaving the country in chaos as ordinary
people.
Koirala died without fulfilling his dream to become the
first president; Maoists fooled and outsmarted the crafty politician who
never aced like statesman.
The honour went to a Madeshi and embarrassingly from his own
party with the support of non-Congress parties.
Girija negotiated and signed a vague peace agreement with a broad
agenda that was never extensively discussed and thought out.
Chakra Prasad Bastola, his nephew and close aide, said he’s a
‘witness’ and revealed on the 13th day of Koirala’s death the peace agreement written with pencil was handed over by India.
The import of the statement is India didn’t to leave any evidence
the proposal came from New Delhi and the agreement was Nepali
driven.
With the startling revelation, Bastola has been sidelined in the NC for his expose.
That apart, other political party leaders, including Maoists, have admitted the peace agreement negotiated by political parties in the outskirts of the
Indian capital near Noida wouldn’t have been possible without Indian behind-the-scene maneuvering.
Before signing the peace agreement, political parties went on a hate campaign against Royal Nepal Army (RNA) equating the state army to the Maoist PLA.
Now for the ruling parties have stopped the hate campaign against
Nepal Army (NA) which was never defeated in the insurgency; ruling parties now not only defend but also praise NA.
Krishna Prasad Shitaula, a Koirala confidante who negotiated the peace agreement of behalf of Koirala, admitted Sunday on the 4th
anniversary of the signing of the agreement, the Ran and PL ‘should never have been equated’.
The peace agreement says the state army should be ‘democratized’ whatever the word connotes; democratization was never defined.
NC leaders claim Koirala and Prachanda have a verbal agreement for integrating 5,000 to 7,000 PLA fighters in state agencies.
Where’s are numbers of fighters mentioned in the peace agreement?
The four-point peace agreement is proof and example to the world community how not to negotiate such agreements to end a conflict.
Girija bit more than he could chew.
A new insurgency has emerged in the terai bordering India and
cessations are spewing propelling fears whether Nepal continue as an independent sovereign country founded by King Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great
Law and order situation has deteriorated with daily abductions
and killings and the economy is in shambles.
Foreigners have gained ascendancy even with ministers and diplomats of small far-off countries from Scandinavia alighting in the country during times of internal political crisis to issue sermons and directives.
Nepalis have become sensitive to frequent public suggestions from foreign countries prompting new British Ambassador John Tucknott to say such comments of US, British and Indian envoys shouldn’t be taken as interferences.
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