BUDGET SESSION BEGINS 2 MAY

BUGET SESSION FROM COMING MONDAY

Kathmandu, 25 April: Budget session of parliament will begin from coming Monday 2 May.
Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal met President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav Sunday and recommended the convening of parliament.
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TWO LAWMAKERS BEING PRESENTED BEFORE KATHMANDU DISTRICT COURT

Kathmandu, 25 April: Two lawmakers, including a woman, arrested last week outside Birendra International Convention during the last days of parliament’s will be produced before the Kathmandu district court Monday for extension of their judicial custody to prepare charges for misuse of red or diplomatic passports.
The court had earlier remanded B.P. Yadav and Gayatri Sah into four-day judicial remand for police to prepare charges.
Police suspect nearly one dozen more lawmakers are involved in such scam that has raised security concerns as well.
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MAOIST CENTRAL COMMITEE DISCUSSES PRACHANDA, MOHAN BAIDYA PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE PARTY STRATEGY

Kathmandu, 25 April: Maoist central committee for the third consecutive day Monday continued discussions on separate proposals of Chairman Prachanda and Vice-chairman Mohan for future party strategy to establish at a communist state as it’s almost certain the second deadline to promulgate a constitution by 28 May won’t be met.
Central committee members are presenting their views Monday after standing committee and politburo expressed their views earlier.
The two top leaders will respond to points raised after all central committee members submit their views.
Twenty-nine persons spoke Sunday.
Most of the speakers have supported the changed Prachanda line, party
Sourcs said.
Prachanda has proposed ‘temporarily suspending’ a declared policy of people’s revolt adopted by the Plaungtar plenum for concluding the peace process and constitution drafting.
Baidya charged the Maoist strongman Vice-chairman for revisionist tendencies by abandoning people’s revolt with supporters a general convention to discuss the chairman proposal.
They argue a central committee can’t overturn a decision of the plenum
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NEW STATUTE ONLY AFTER INTEGRATION SAYS DEFENCE MINISTER





Kathmandu, April 24 - Defence Minister Bishnu Poudel Sunday said that the new constitution would be drafted only after the integration of the Maoist combatants and management of their weapons. Speaking at a programme organized to mark the 58th anniversary of Matribhumi Higher Secondary School in Putali Bazaar, Minister Poudel also clarified that the new constitution would not be promulgated without concluding the peace process, The Rising Nepal reports from Syangjha.
Reminding that the time to draft the new constitution was going to expire soon, he said that the new constitution could be drafted within the stipulated timeframe if the political parties gave up their rigid stances and became flexible.
He said that the country might plunge into another
round of conflict if the new constitution was not drafted by May 28 deadline and added, "Integration of the Maoist combatants and management of their weapons are the base for drafting the new constitution."
"Restoration of peace and drafting of the constitution will be impossible until the Maoists possess their weapons."
He further said that if the Maoists wanted to lead the government, they should implement the past agreements.
Poudel had obtained his school-level education from the school.

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MAOIST CC MEMBERSUNIFIED PAPER





Kathmandu, 25 April: Most of the Politburo members of UCPN-Maoist who commented on the separate political documents in the third day of the Central Committee (CC) meeting of the party on Sunday stressed on merging both the documents arguing that they were identical with regard to the party’s move in case the peace and constitution writing failed, The Rising Nepal reports.
"Many comrades viewed that it was not necessary for presenting the separate documents as they were not substantially different," Maoist spokesperson Dina Nath Sharma said after the meeting at the party’s head office at Paris Danda, Koteshwor.
Sharma hinted that the CC meeting could fix the date of convention of the party when he said that the chairman had raised the issue of party convention in his political document.
"As our party is a democratic party, presentation of separate documents is not a new thing. Any member has the right to express his or her view in the written or oral form," he said when asked about the separate political report presented by party vice-chairman Mohan Baidhya ‘Kiran’.
Kiran had presented the separate report disagreeing with the document presented by party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ in the first day of meeting

on Friday. According to Maoist sources, Prachanda has proposed to make some shift in the party’s working plan whereas Kiran has stressed on keeping up with the decisions made following the party Plenum held in November last year. The Maoists had then adopted a tactical line of people’s revolt on condition that all of its efforts to conclude peace and constitution writing failed.
A Maoist CC member informed that those Politburo members who supported Prachanda’s document viewed that the documents could be integrated whereas those who embraced Kiran’s proposal stressed that the party should adopt the vice-chairman’s line.
The Maoist spokesperson said that meeting would continue Monday as there were CC members to comment on the documents.

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LEADERS WARNED OF ANOTHER ANDOLAN

Kathmandu, 25 April: With no sign that the peace process or the task of statute writing will be completed by the deadline — May 28, those injured in People’s Movement II today warned leaders of yet another movement, The Himalayan Times reports from Pokhara.
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Netrapani Subedi (47) warned he would initiate another people’s movement if political leaders tried to extend the CA tenure for the second time. “The leaders should not extend the CA tenure under any pretext now,” he said warning, “We are already injured and are ready to die, but we won’t allow them to extend the tenure for the second time.”

He said that only a timely constitution would justify the sacrifice of martyrs and respect the contribution of the hundreds of injured.

A resident of Kaskikot VDC in Kaski, Subedi was disabled after his backbone was broken in a police assault on April 21, 2006 in Sabhagriha Chowk of Pokhara during the second people’s movement. His disability has put his two sons, a daughter, wife and mother in dire straits.

What’s worse, the government did not even recommend him for treatment in the US at his own expense. “The government felicitates suppressors of the movement on Loktantra Day, but ignores us,” he lamented.

He is preparing to perform Shraddha, an annual ritual in memory of deceased relatives, on May 28, the day the CA term expires if the leaders fail to promulgate the constitution. He had performed the ritual of 601 lawmakers in protest on the same day last year.

Meanwhile, Parbati Poudel, another victim, lamented that neither was the bullet she received during the movement removed nor was the cause for which she struggled fulfiled. “The parties, engaged in dirty politics, even forgot to treat the injured,” she said, adding, “The constitution is still uncertain and the country is likely to move back to conflict after the deadline is missed.”

Around 137 people were injured during the movement in Kaski. People’s Movement Martyrs and Injured Coordination Committee Chairman Dhakaram Poudel vented ire, “They are seeped in corruption and loot while the injured are living with bullets inside their bodies without treatment.”
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