GOVT. FACILITIES FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS, VICE-PRESIDENTS AND PMs

FACILITIES FOR FORMER PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT AND PM
Kathmandu, 1 April: Government has decided in principle to extend housing and
vehicle facilities along with officials for formr special class officials, Keshab Khanal writes in Annapurna Post. quoting Minister for Physical Planning Hridesh
Tripathi.
Former presidents, vice-presidents, and prime ministers
will be provided government housing; those having houses won’t get the housing facility.
Cabinet approved a proposal of the home ministry.
Former president will be allocated a vehicle, 200 leers of petrol every month, a deputy-secretary, a unit chief and one official without rank along with security.
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MAOIST REBELS EFFORT CEMENTING TEAM
Kathmandu, 1 April: As a part of its campaign to form parallel structures, hard-line faction of the UCPN (Maoist) led by Mohan Baidya has formed a five-member office bearers’ team to “run the faction in an effective way”. The faction, however, has not
publicised the team fearing that the establishment faction led by Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal may take action against them, The Kathmandu Post reports.
The team is also known as
the party headquarters. The Baidya faction has already deployed its
leaders to districts and party’s
State Committees to form parallel structures.
Members of the team include Baidya, General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa, Secretary CP Gajurel, Standing Committee members Dev Gurung and Netra Bikram Chand. According to leaders, Baidya is the “undeclared” chairman of their faction, while Thapa is his deputy.
The Maoist party has a seven-member office bearers’ team led by Dahal. Three of the members belong to the hard-line faction.
Central Committee member Bharat Bam, loyal to Baidya,
confessed that they have formed
a five-member “core team” to chalk out the party’s future strategy. Another Baidya faction leader claimed that formation of the core team was part of preparations for forming a new party.
A meeting of office bearers loyal to Baidya on Saturday discussed about the agreement forged among political parties on Friday about moving the integration process forward. It interpreted the agreement as their party’s surrendering its policy. According to a leader, the meeting also discussed about forming parallel bodies of students, workers, and women, among many others. The hardliners are busy forming parallel organisational structures to implement their political line of revolt.
Though the hardliners are in
no mood to defect before May 27,
the extended deadline of the Constituent Assembly, the faction
is functioning as a separate party
with its own policy and organisational structures. Even though the
Baidya faction is functioning as
a party within party, leaders rule
out the possibility of a split before May 27.
“Dahal needs a united party to bargain with the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML while we also need a whole party to launch a struggle from the streets,” said politburo member Hari Bhakta Kandel, close to Baidya.
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