NSP HAS TWO NEW GENERAL SECRETARIES

THREE DRUGS TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED

Kathmandu, 10 July: Three male traffickers were arrested over from Birendranagar along a highway in north Chitwan by an Armed Police Force patrol.
Thirty-five kg hash was recovered from them.
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MARSHYANGDHI THREATENS ALONG RIVER BANKS

Kathmandu, 10 July: Debris of a collapsed bridge across River Marshyangdhi in Lamjung in the West has impeded its normal flow and the rising river level has started eroding banks.
Settlements along he river have been threatened, Radio Nepal said in a Sunday morning broadcast.
A steel bridge collapsed over the river 15 June.
Contractors who built the bridge haven’t cleared the debris after the collapse even in 25 days,
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TWO NEW NSP GENRAL SECRETARIES

Kathmandu, 10 July: Saroj Yadav and Manish Suman have been appointed general secretaries of NSP which is one of four members parties in the Joint Democratic Madesh Front.
The position was vacant for six months after the expulsion of Anil Jha.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“It [government] won’t do anything. This is only a government that’ll spend the day fluttering the flag and gobble up its allowances. This is not a government that will give people relief and work. This just came to spend money.”

(UML senior leader KP Sharma Oli, Chalpjal, 10 July)
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NC ESTABLISHMENT FACTION NOW SUPPORTING PM KHANAL

Kathmandu, 10 July: The resignation of Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal has been sidelined by an establishment faction of NC President Sushil Koirala and Vice-president Ram Chandra Paudel because of an internal dispute in NC created by leadership of the parliamentary party, Balraj Baniya and Durga Khanal reporting Kantipur.
The demand for PM Khanal has been sidelined after senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, before the appointment of central party office bearers, in a ‘secret understanding’ with President Koirala be appointed parliamentary party leader.
Deuba faction is angry the at the sidelining of the demand for the resignation of the prime minister; the resignation of the government chief was the chief demand in the five-point agreement that facilitated the three-month extension of the constituent assembly tenure.
Paudel isn’t ready to give up the post of parliamentary party leader; Koiirala belatedly isn’t in a mood to desert Paudel/
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MAOIST LEADER HIMAL SHARMA RECALLS SON SUYDYING MEDICINEIN CHINA

Kathmandu, 10 July: Chairman of AKHIL (Revolutionary) Sunil Sharma has recalled his son studying medicine in China, Naya Patrika reports.
Saral returned Thursday; he had gone to China of a scholarship five months ago.
“All went to government schools through our network. My son went on a scholarship with a decision of the party faction committee, I recalled him for principled pressure,” Himal Sharma said.
The AKHIL(Revolutionary) has pushed a three-point campaign was pressurize the central committee to take a decision to send children of leaders to government schools.
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FACTIONALAISM COMPLICATES TALKS WITH ARMED OUTFITS

Kathmandu, 10 July: The government has initiated talks with underground armed outfits with “political” demands, but dialogue appears complicated with different factions claiming to be the authentic group, The Himalayan Times reports.

The Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR) had recently sent letters to at least eight outfits asking them to sit for talks. It has already held talks with some in a bid to disarm them.

Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Bishwonath Sah said talks are heading in a “positive,”direction, but made it clear the government would not talk to outfits involved in criminal activities. “We are in talks with armed groups with genuine political demands, but there is no chance of holding talks with groups involved in heinous crime,” Sah said.

The erstwhile Madhav Kumar Nepal led government had identified about 109 underground outfit across the country. Most of them

were involved in criminal activities, though the government had vowed to root out criminal outfits through strict policing.

“We will address the demands of such outfits, if they genuinely want to surrender arms,” Sah said. He, however, said efforts to disarm them through peaceful means had stymied due

to “factionalism” rife in these groups.

“As we sit for talks with a group, another faction of the same outfit demands talks, claiming it’s the genuine one,” he added. “This has hindered efforts to bring them into peaceful politics.” The MoPR recently experienced the same dilemma with separate factions approaching when it was in talks with Kirat Workers Group of eastern Hills.

He said the government is even ready to hold talks with separate factions if their claim is genuine.
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