TASK FORCE MEETS FOR LAST TIME SATURDAY

Kathmandu, 11 Dec.: The Chairman Prachanda-led task force is meeting for the last time Saturday to submit a report to Speaker Subash Nemwang on differences in major parties on 230 points for a proposed constitution.
The body Friday discussed ‘unchangeable’ sections in a proposed constitution.
The Maoists insist sovereignty and a republic should be unchangeable as RPP-Nepal demands restoration of constitutional monarchy.
The 1990 constitution with constitutional monarchy and multi-party system as bedrocks also had unchangeable features; the basic law was drafted by present ruling parties and promulgated by King Birendra; it was shred to pieces and thrown into a bust-bin.
Constitutions have emerged with every change forced through street politics; the country has on an average one constitution every 10 years..
A system of constitutional rule hasn’t emerged in Nepal.
The same rulers and constitution drafters are now attempting to promulgate a constitution and are behind schedule as they differ on fundamentals.
In other countries, a new leadership would emerge with change and revolution; but the same faces have been ruling Nepal for more than four decades exploiting ‘democracy’ now called not ‘prajatantra’ but ‘loltantra’.
The English translation for both words is democracy.
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PRACHANDA ASKS STUDENTS TO BE MILITANT

Kathmandu, 11 Dec.: The Maoist chief Prachanda Friday asked students to move ahead ‘militarily; as the country, he predicted, is moving towards a crisis.
He was inaugurating the 18th national convention of AKHILRthatwillelect a new leadership.
AKHILR is a student wing of the party.
He warned university will be turned into ‘barracks’ if there’s a conspiracy to take the Nepali revolution forward.
The Maoist chief warned there’s a conspiracy at home and abroad to finish Maoists.
He called them ‘counterrevolutionaries’.
“We’ve come here uniting the party,” he said referring to the just
concluded Gorkha plenum.
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