NC LAUNCHES NATION-WIDE PROTEST MONDAY

NC LAUNCHES ONE-DAY NATION-WIDE
PROTEST MONDAY DESPITE REQUEST BY
USA TO WITHDRAW IT

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 19 Dec.: NC ignored a request by US Ambassador by Scott
H.DeLisi to call off its one-day protest on a cold land and wintry
morning at six until 5.30 late afternoon.
DeLisi said the strike as a protest tool shouldn’t doesn’t be adopted by a democratic party like the NC.
US and European had earlier threatened to deny visas to persons
affiliated with parties and institutions launching such protests to push demands.
Member states of EU and other European states were silent on the NC strike Monday.
The British embassy earlier this year even discontinued funding a NGO that launched protests for regional demands.
NC is protesting the death of its Tarun Dal Chitwan district President
Shiva Prasad Paudel Saturday in the capital while undergoing
treatment for head injuries sustained in an attack inside a Chitwan
district jail where he was in custody for a murder charge.
The party Sunday demanded withdrawal of what was called ‘false charge’ while declaring Paudel
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai a didn’t accede to he opposition demands.
The party and Paudel’s family haven’t lifted the body from a capital
hospital for cremation.
Paudel died in a brawl with another opposition UML
youth group whose leader was also killed in Chitwan
Brother of Shiva was also killed earlier in a long drawn quarrel
between the two youth groups having local business interests in the
district.
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DETAILS OF CAN ELECTION
Kathmandu, 19 Dec.: Central committee member of
UCPB (Maoist) Tanka Angbuhang was unanimously elected president of Cricket Association of Nepal
(CAN) in Chitwan Sunday by the first vote in 64 years.
Angbuhang laws just appointed CAN chief after
dismissal of Binaya Raj Pandey following the takeover of government by Maoists.
A 17-member committee were also elected
unopposed
TB Shah was elected first vice-president, Sriniwas Rana and Chatur Bahadur Chand were elected vice-presidents and Ashok Nath Pyakurel was elected general secretary.

Ratan Kathayat, Anup Thapa, Shailesh Chaudhary, Uttam Karmacharya, Dhirendra Saud, Kiran Rana, Binod Mainali, Raju Babu Shrestha, Basant Raj Satyal, Naresh Shrestha, Ameet Bir Pandey, and Sanjay Singh were also elected unopposed.

Former national captain Pawan Agrawal withdrew hs candidacy paving the way for the election of the new CAN chief.

Other members of the 31-member committee will
now be nominated by the elected president and other affiliated institutions.
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Rs 181M BUDGET FOR ANFA APPROVED

Kathmandu, 19 Dec.: A 12th general assembly of All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) Sunday approved a Rs 181 million for the fiscal year 2068/69
The budget for previous fiscal year was approximately Rs 80 million.
ANFA is hosting a AFC Challenge Cup March 8-18 in
the capital
Eight teams including Nepal, Turkmenistan, the Maldives, Palestine, North Korea, India, Tajikistan and the Philippines are participating in the .
The assembly approved Sindhuli and
Sankhuwasabha as the 41st and 42nd district
Associations, ANFA said
The general assembly also approved plans and policies of 2068/69 unanimously presented by ANFA President Ganesh Thapa.
The income for 2067/68 was Rs 134.9 million and
expenses Rs 96.5 million with a saving of Rs 38.4 million.
Thirty-one programmes were approved.
ANFA has made public three A division knockout
tournaments,
Minister for Youth and Sports Kamala Rokka
formally inaugurated the general assembly.
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PLA GUARDS DEMAND MONEY BACK FROM COMMANDERS
Kathmandu, 19 Dec.: Accusing their commanders of embezzling the payments for food rations, PLA personnel deployed for the security of senior party leaders are currently knocking the doors of party leadership for justice, Kiran Pun writes in Republica..

There were altogether 106 PLA guards in the service of senior party leaders in the capital, and each of them is entitled to Rs 2,500 a month as food ration.

The total amount of money each of them is supposed to get since 2007 is Rs 150,000. In total, the commanders owe Rs 16 million to the PLA guards.

The PLA guards have formed an 11-member committee to press for the return of the money. On Friday, they made an all-out effort to meet party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal to talk on the issue, but they were denied access citing Dahal´s busy schedule. Similarly, PLA chief Nanda Kishor Pun also refused to meet them for “lack of time”.

Spurned by both Dahal and Pun, they, met the party´s military in-charge and General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa.

“We want immediate investigation into the irregularities and action against the guilty,” said Dhan Bahadur Bogati, coordinator of the struggle committee of the victimized PLA. Bogati is also the battalion vice-commander at the sixth division cantonment in Surkhet.

The PLA guards were entitled to Rs 2,100 each as food ration after the second round of verification in 2007, but the amount was increased to Rs 2,500 when the Maoist-led government was formed after the CA polls.

The committee members also submitted an 11-point demand, which, among others, included transparent financial system in the party, transfer of ownership of the party´s vehicles registered in the name of individual leaders to the party organization.

At the standing committee meeting held in Sikute last year, the party had directed the commanders to return the money, but to no avail.

“We were hopeful and happy thinking that we would get our money. But the commanders told us they were not returning our money. Instead they challenged us to do whatever we could,” Bogati told Republica.

He argued that the guards have not violated the party´s norms by forming the committee.

The committee has also demanded that the party make arrangements to take care of the injured, kin of those killed and disappeared during the insurgency, and ensure state honors to the PLA personnel.
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