ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER JAILED IN SUDAN SCAM

DSP PRAKASH ADHILARY ALSO SENT TO JAIL

Kathmandu, 21 July: DSP Prakash Adhikary of Nepal Police was sent to jail Wednesday after he failed to furnish Rs.1.5 million bail fixed by special court.
CIAA has charged Adhikary in a Rs.280 million scam in the Darfur, Sudan scam.
Adhikary is among 34 policemen charged in the purchase of armoured personnel carriers for Nepali police peacekeepers with the UN in Sudan.
Former IGPs Hem Bahadur Gurung and Ramesh Chand Thakuri were released by the special court Wednesday after they furnished a Rs 70 and Rs. 50 million bail respectively.
Former IGP Om Bikram Rana has also been charged.
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MOTI BAHADUR GURUNG APPOINTED NID CHIEF

Kathmandu, 21 July: Moti Bahadur Gurung was appointed chief of National Investigation Department (NID) by the cabinet Wednesday.
Ashok Dev Bhatta was superannuated.
Bibha Das was appointed chairman of Dairy Development Corporation.
The tenure of General Manager Hari Narayan Sah of Nepal Food Corporation was extended by another two years.
Suresh Prasad Yadav has been appointed Executive Director of Nepal Railways Company which has just been established.
Agriculture Secretary Nathu Prasad Chaudhary has been transferred to Information Commission.
Ram Thakur has been appointed advisor to the foreign minister.
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LANDSLIDES KILL SIX IN NUWAKOT, KASKI

Kathmandu, 21 July: Landslides killed six persons Tuesday/ Wednesday in Nuwakot and Kaski.
Four members of a Tamang family were buried alive at Aldanda in Nuwakot and two members of another family were buried at.Prashyang village in Kaski while another person survived.
One person was buried in Bahundangi VDC in Khotang and a child was swept away by a flooded river in Mohottari
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“The Maoists are fueling this dispute [change in parliamentary party leadership in NC] with malicious intention. There is so need to appoint a new PP leader. Madhav Kumar Nepal had been fielded as the UML’s prime ministerial candidate even when he was not the party’s PP leader.”

(Sujata Koirala, Republica, 21 July)
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BAIDHYA-BHATTARAI TEAM UP AGAINST MAOIST CHIEF



Kathmandu, 21July 21: Further tightening the screws on Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Maoist Vice-chairmen duo Mohan Baidya and Baburam Bhattarai have initiated a new campaign to save the party from “decadence” and “democratize” it through collective leadership.

At a meeting of the Baidya-Bhattarai alliance at Dhobighat, Lalitpur, all top party office bearers except Secretary Post Bahadur Bogati and Chairman Dahal himself signed a commitment paper to force Dahal to share the centralized leadership with other leaders of the party.

With the signing of the document by Vice-chairman Narayankaji Shrestha, the power balance in the party has been turned upside down, with a clear majority in the Central Committee (CC) now in favor of the alliance.

Interestingly, Nara Bahadur Karmacharya, one of the founders of the Community Party of Nepal in 1949, also signed the document, saying he was “sad” at the way the party was being run but “excited” by the campaign for its “purification”.

After the three vice-chairmen signed the paper, it was passed on to General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa, and then to Karmacharya. After that Sashi Serchan, who led the party unity campaign, and Nawaraj Subedi, representing his faction, signed the paper.

Party leaders say the new development will create ripples inside and outside the party, sending out the message that the party must be transformed and break from the current “stagnation”.

“This campaign is not against anyone; it is just meant to improve the ways of the chairman. The campaign has been launched and we won´t stop without accomplishing our mission,” said Sashi Serchan.

The commitment paper states that the party must undergo transformation to save its "sanctity” and keep party unity intact amidst growing factionalism. Concluding that the main reason behind the party´s “decadence” is “bureaucratic centralism in the party run by the chairman”, the top office bearers have demanded that the party adopt collective leadership in deed and practice “democratic centralism.”

The party has also stated that the internal contradictions and “two-line struggle” should be managed in a wholesome manner. The alliance also talks about “rational” power sharing in the party with Bhattarai as the leader in parliament, Thapa as military in-charge and Baidya as chief of the party´s organizational department.

Another point the paper talks about is the violation of the party´s decision to adopt inclusiveness and proportionality while making appointments to various bodies and in the government.

“The chairman had been running the party with deception. With the signatures of 90 CC members in favor of the alliance, there is no other option for the chairman than to improve himself and his ways,” said Haribhakta Kandel from the Baidya faction.

Immediately after signing the commitment paper, the alliance leaders are scheduled to present the document at the meeting of top party office bearers. “If the chairman accepts the document, the commitment will belong to the whole party. Otherwise, it would just be our campaign to downsize him and purify the party,” said a senior party leader.
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