MAIN CONSTITUTION DRAFTING COMMITTEE EDRORSES 13-POINT PROPOSAL TO PROMULGATE CONSTITUTON BY 27 MAY

MAIN CONSTITUTION DRAFTING COMMITTEE ENDORSES
13-POINT TO PROMULGATE CONSTITUTION BY 27 MAY
Kathmandu, 4 Dec.: The main constitution drafting committee chaired by
Nilambar Acharya Sunday endorsed a 13-point work scheduled developed by a sub-committee headed by Chairman Prachanda to promulgate a delayed by 27 May 2012.


The Acharya committee adjourned until 11 December.
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WILD ELEPHANTS KILL TWO WOMEN IN JHAPA

Kathmandu, 4 Dec.: Wild elephants killed two women.
at Khudunabari and Budhabare, Jhapa, Saturday morning.
The women have been identified as Sabitri Ojha and Shree Maya
Subba, according to police.
A man was injured.
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UML AGAINST ETHNICITY BASED FEDRAL STATES

Kathmandu, 4 Dec.: CPN-UML chairman and former prime minister Jhalanath Khanal Saturday said that his party was against ethnicity-based federal states. The Rising Nepal reports from Bhairahawa.
Inaugurating the second regional convention of the party’s constituency-3 committee in Manigram here, Khanal said that federal states should be multi-ethnic mosaics even if they were made to be small ones.
"No matter how many units of states are created, they will be multi-ethnic in nature," Khanal said. "Communal states are impossible."
He said that the parties were close to resolving the disputed issues of the constitution.
"The parties are close to consensus on complex issues like the form of governance, election system, and state structure," he said.
He also said that the number of combatants for integration could not be increased beyond the one agreed earlier.
"The past agreement should be followed by all," he said.
He, however, said that important gains had been made in the peace process.
Khanal claimed that the peace process was moving ahead as per the proposal of his party and added that the process was at the final stage.
The tasks of drafting the constitution would be completed within the stipulated timeframe, he said.
CPN-UML was the only party that could solve the problems of the country at the current juncture.
"The nation will not find an outlet under the Maoist leadership," he said.
He further claimed that the political changes in the country happened in line with the work plan of UML.
Khanal said that the need now was to make social and cultural revolutions successful after the success of the political revolution.
Political parties had the responsibility to guide the waves of political changes to the desired destination, he said.
Khanal, however, said that peace and constitution writing processes were delayed due to the differences among the parties.
He stressed unity among the revolutionary forces of the country.
He accused the UCPN-Maoist of taking the ultra-leftist direction and Nepali Congress of sticking to the status quo.
"UML is placed in the middle as a party capable of taking these forces along together," he said.
Khanal charged the present government as the largest in the history of the country contributing to its economic burden.
General secretary Ishwor Pokharel said that the Maoist party and Nepali Congress were in the opposite sides.
"If NC takes a step forward and UCPN-Maoist takes a step backward, both

would be on the path of UML," he said.
Secretary Shankar Pokharel said that economic and social transformation was possible only through the people’s multiparty democracy.
Lumbini zonal chief of the party Chhabilal BK said that only the policy and thoughts of UML could guide the country on the right path.
Central member Ghanashyam Bhusal said that the country would triumph if it was saved from turning into ethnic states.
Meanwhile, Khanal inspected Lumbini Agro-production and Research Center located at Tikuligadh.
Inaugurating the regional convention of the party’s constituency-2 in Bhairahawa, secretary Shankar Pokharel said that the relations of UML with the people thinned due to the failure of the leadership to properly manage the party’s stands and ideologies.
He said that the leadership was unaware of the strength of the UML.
"If the cadres could make the party realise its strength in the manner of Lord Rama making Hanuman realise his strength to win over Lanka, the party will emerge a winner," he said.
He said that weapons blunt before the organised movement of the people.
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Conflict victims should receive relief equitably
By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Dec 3, Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala Saturday said that all conflict victims should receive relief equitably.
Speaking at a function organised in memory of martyrs Lila Dahal and Yashoda Dahal, Koirala said corruption and loot flourished in the country.
The present government led by Dr. Baburam Bhattarai had handed the national coffers to Maoist activists, he said.
He also released a memoir, Sahid Lila-Yashoda Smriti Grantha, at the function. Lila and Yashoda, arrested in connection with the infamous Timburbote incident, were killed in the name of transferring them from Nakkhu prison to another jail.
Parliamentary leader and vice-president of NC Ram Chandra Paudel said that the Maoists were raising slogans of the proletariat while looting the funds from the national coffers.
He also said that several combatants who registered their names for integration were not genuine.
He said that the government was distributing millions of rupees to the party cadres in the name of the youth self-employment programme.
Central leader Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat said that the corruption in Energy, Home, and Industry ministries, as well as the Prime Minister’s Office, was the highest in the history.
Meanwhile, in Rupandehi, party general secretary Krishna Sitaula said that the dispute that arose in the party after the dissolution of the sister organisations was not as big as hyped.
Speaking at a meeting with party cadres, Sitaula pointed out the need for the party to focus politics on wards and villages.
He said that although Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai took bold steps for peace, the party had not fully come to the mainstream of peace due to the stand by the Mohan Baidhya faction.
He said that the peace process made progress not because of Dr. Baburam Bhattarai but when the Maoists agreed on the stance of the Nepali Congres
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