MAOIST STANDING COMMITTEE ALSO MEETS THURSDAY

MAOIST STANDING COMMITTEE THURSDAY

Kathmandu, 1 March: Maoist standing committee meets later Thursday immediately after a summit of the Big Three.
The standing committee comes amid demands by YCL for relief on par with 7,200 former PLA fighters who voluntarily with a golden handshake ranging from Rs.300,000 to Rs.800,000 provided by government first with European and now with Chinese government involvement.
The party belatedly has accepted the YCL was launched and sent to infiltrate society as former fighters and used for civilian activities like influencing elections giving the party majority in the constituent assembly election more than four years ago..
UCP (Maoist) has formed a two-member taskforce to workout details of a relief package for YCL activists; one suggestion is to tax lawmakers.
The party running the government with help of five Madeshbadi parties is involved in serious conflict with a hard-line faction headed by First Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai.
The party has to sell proposals to the opposition to conclude the delayed peace process and constitution drafting processes amid widening rift between major players,
The party is reluctant to handover leadership of government to the which claims Maoists and government have failed and leadership should to over to the opposition to complete two twin tasks of peace and constitution.
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UML CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETS FRIDAY

Kathmandu, 1 March: An informal meeting of opposition UML central committee has been called Friday by the party standing committee.
Friday’s meeting will discuss nomination of 42 women representatives for Sunday’s two-day Kathmandu meeting of the national representatives council which assembles every three years though it should normally meet once in two years.
Nine hundred delegates have already been elected/nominated.
The standing committee meet continues Thursday.
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GOBINDA RAM SHRESTHA DEAD

Kathmandu, 1 March: Gobinda Ram Shrestha died 15 February.
Kathmandu Engineering College (KEC) of which he was founding member made the announcement Thursday.
He was 59.
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