PABSON SGETS NEW LEADERSHIP

NEW PABSON LEADERSHIP
Kathmandu, 20 Feb.: Founder of VS Niketan School Dr. Baburam Pokhrel has been elected as the chairman of the Private and Boarding Schools Organization Nepal (PABSON), RSS reports from Lalitpur.
A three-day 11th National General Convention of the organisation elected Pokhrel as the chairman.
A total of 1,258 votes were casted for 51 posts including chairman. Out of the total votes, Pokhrel got 735 while his contender Bhoj Bahadur Shah got 523 votes.
Lakshya Bahadur KC and Sanu Amatya were elected unopposed as senior vice-chairman and woman vice-chairperson respectively.
Similarly, Bijaya Sambahamphe, Saroj Ray, Gopal Krishna Shrestha and Tika Puri were elected as regional vice-chairmen unopposed.
DK Dhungana is the general secretary, whereas Dipi Thapa, Rajendra Baniya, Kumar Ghimire and Krishna Adhikari are secretaries and Ishwor Bahadur Gurung is treasurer of PABSON.
Newly elected chairman Pokhrel said that they will move ahead the PABSON in a systematic and transparent way.
The PABSON was established in 1991. General Convention of the PABSON is held every two years for electing new leadership.
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NC LEADER PAUDEL COMPLAINS GOVT. TRYING TO IMPOSE
COMMUNIST RULE

Kathamandu, 20 Feb.: Vice-president of the Nepali Congress (NC), Ram Chandra Paudel on Monday said that the government attempt to skip formal celebration on the occasion of Democracy Day was a ploy to impose communist regime in the
Country, RSS reports.

Emerging from the meeting of the Dispute Resolution Subcommittee under the Constitutional Committee (CC) held today, Paudel said such National Days observed for decades could only be overshadowed after establishment of communism in the country.

He said Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai who was also present at the meeting was interrogated about the government decision not to mark the Democracy Day and the PM assured that discussions will be held to determine the National Day.

"To escape formal programme on the occasion of the Democracy Day manifests government´s ill-intention to impose unitary regime," Paudel added. Till last year, the government was marking Democracy Day on Falgun 7 in to commemorate the end of 104-year-long oligarchic Rana regime.

Paudel said, "This is unfortunate to undermine the Democracy Day. The single-largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA) is conspiring to omit the history of this
day."
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UML WOMAN LEADER CALLS FOR FRESH ELECTIONS
Kathmandu, 20 Feb.: Vice-chairperson of the CPN-UML Bidya Devi Bhandari has said that a constitution as desired by the people could be written only when we go for
fresh polls, RSS reports from Chitwan.

Speaking at a press meet organised by the Chitwan Press Chautari Nepal in Bharatpur on Monday, she said there was no possibility of promulgating new constitution on the slated timeframe.

Bhandari added the next election would change power equation which would take peace process to its logical conclusion.

Stating that the Constituent Assembly (CA) had already become unsuccessful, Bhandari further said there was no alternative to fresh polls.

She said there was no clear concept on the form of governance in her party, and added that as the directly elected President would make parties weaker, it would not be suitable.

Bhandari also opined that the state should not be restructured on the basis of ethnicity.
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