UML WARNS MAOISTS IT WILL VOTE FOR NC WITHOUT CHANGE IN A 'RIGID STANCE'

UML ASKS MAOISTS TO BE MORE FLEXIBLE TO SECURE A UML VOTE IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS FOR PM SUNDAY

Kathmandu, 27 Aug.: UML standing committee asked Maoists to be ‘further flexible’ by Saturday evening in the peace process and constitution drafting to secure support for Dr. Baburam Bhattarai.
“Otherwise, there’s no alternative but to support NC,” Maoist dialogue team leader former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal warned after a UML standing committee meeting.
Second vice-chairman Dr. Bhattarai is challenging NC Vice-president Ram Chandra Paudel in parliamentary election for premier
Nepal asked Maoists ‘to amend a rigid’ stance.
Nepal said the UML stance was adopted judging from ‘backward step’ while Maoists made public this week a five-point proposal on government, peace and constitution drafting to secure leadership of government.
Integration of 8,000 of 19,000 plus former combatants under a Nepal Army (NA) directorate would tantamount to creation of a separate Maoist unit within NA, UML said.
UML Vice-chairman Ashok Rai said the party decided to ask NC for a timetable to complete the peace process for UML support.
The UML standing committee also decided to get NC commitment for drafting the constitution and implementation of an annual national budget presented by the outgong government of Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal.
The five-party of five Madeshbadi parties was still undecided on which party to support.
(NC) Saturday issued a whip asking all its lawmakers to vote for Vice-president Ram Chandra Paudel in Sunday’s election for prime minister.
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UML YOUTH ACTIVIST SHOT DEAD IN CHITWAN

Kathmandu, 27 Aug.: Sanjay Lama, 28, died Saturday while undergoing treatment for bullet injuries at Chitwan Medical College Hospital ..
He was shot and injured at Kerabari in the central district along a national highway.
Angry relatives smashed and damaged a motorcycle at the hospital.
Relatives and friends of Lama charged NC youth leader Shiva Paudel for firing at Lama.
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