SHITAL NIWAS REVEALS IT IS PREPARINGFOR PRESIDENT'S POLITICAL ROLE AFTER SATURDAY MIDNIGHT

MAOISTS, NC BEGIN DIALOGUE UPDATE

Kathmandu, 28 May: Top leaders of ruling CPN (Maoist) and main opposition NC began consultations Saturday afternoon to find an outlet to the deadlock called a crisis by Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal.
The tenure of the constituent assembly empowered draft constitution ends in less that nine hours.
Assembly members couldn’t meet the extended one year deadline as well. President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav Saturday held consultations with former speaker Daman Dhungana, who is a lawyer, and another senior lawyer Sindhunath Pyakhurel.
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PRESIDENT PREPARING HIMSELF FOR POLITICAL ROLE

Kathmandu, 28 May: With little possibility of an extension of the constituent assembly tenure, Shital Niwas is doing homework on the president’s constitutional and political roles after 28 May, Bal Krishna Basnet writes in Kantipur.
‘Don’t see other possibilities. The president has to have a political role without wanting it We’re preparing for that,” the president’s secretariat source told Kantipur Friday evening
Preparations are afoot to exert moral pressure questioning the legality of the
Jhalanath Khanal government, a source said
The source said the immediate plan is to give the present government a caretaker role and start a dialogue with all political party leaders
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BHANU KUMAR TIBDEWALA ARRESTED

Kathmandu, 28 May: Trader Bhanu Kumar Tibdewala, absconding for two years, after Kathmandu district court fined him Rs 12.6 million and slapped a one-year jail sentence was arrested by criminal investigation bureau Friday from the capital.
He was sentenced for money laundering.
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