MAOIST ESTABLISSSSHMENT ADOPTS SOFT APPROACH WITH BAIDHYA WITH DECISION TO TALKS WITH THE REBEL LEADER

MAOIST ESTABLISHMENT FACTION FOR END TO PARTY GROUPISM

Kathmandu, 19 March: A hastily called meeting of the establishment
faction of UCPN (Maoist) Monday decided to ask for the position on peace, constitution and people’s rebellion from the rebellious First Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya faction, paty spokesman Dinanath Sharma who is also education minister said.
The meeting decided to resolve intra-part differences through talks through talks empowering Chairman Prachanda to conduct negotiations with Baidhya whose supporters decided to bring a no-trust motion against government even with opposition support.
The party establishment decided to ‘smash dissent and end groupism’ and forge and reinforce unity, Sharma said.
A decision has been taken to convene a meeting of the central committee.
Monday’s meeting continues Tuesday with additional presentation of views by party leaders.
More than 100 office bearers and standing committee members spoke at the meeting convened in Lalitpur Monday.
“I am not under pressure to resign and I won’t quit,” Prime Miniister Bhattarai said amid calls for resignation from the Baidhy group.
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MJFL DISSIDENTS CALL FOR RECALL OF ITS MINISTERS FROM GOVT.

Kathmandu, 19 March: Demands were made at a meeting of the parliamentary party Monday for the recall of ministers in the government of the MJFL, a member said.
The meeting was adorned until Tuesday.
Majority members of the parliamentary party demanded the meeting dissatisfied with the working style of party Chairman, Bijaya Kumar Gachedhar, who is also deputy prime minister and home minister.
Some members are also not happy with the non-implementation of a 4-point agreement by Maoists leading the government demanding withdrawal from the Bhattarai government.
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MAIZE CROP FAILS FOR THE SECOND SUCCESSIVE YEAR IN BARA WITH BAD SEEDS

Kathmandu, 19 March: Farmers in Bara staged protests in Kaliaya demanding compensation from government for the failed maize crop—the second in two years.
They demanded compensation within 15 days threatening agitation.
For the second year only cobs were harvested as farmers demanded action against seed distributors.
Maize was grown over hundreds of bighas of farmland in the district.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“I am a disabled with walking difficulties .I ask the prime minister for one million rupees to climb Everest for peace and constitution.”

(An unidentified in Nepal FM evening newscast Monday)
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INDIAN PM BLAMES UNRULY OPPOSITION
Kathmandu, 19 March:: India's premier blamed his unruly coalition Monday for difficulties in passing economic reforms as he reacted to the resignation of a railway minister over a proposed hike in train fares, AFP reports from New Delhi.
"The difficult decisions we have to make (in ushering in economic reforms) are made even more difficult because we are a coalition government," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament.
"We have to formulate policy with the need to maintain consensus," the 79-year-old premier from the Congress party added. "This was sharply brought out in presentation of the railway budget."
Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi resigned over the weekend after facing a mutiny in his Trinamool Congress Party, a minority party in the coalition whose leader Mamata Banerjee blasted the proposed hike in rates as "anti-poor."
The prime minister told parliament he accepted "with regret the departure" of Trivedi.
He noted that the minister -- in office since May 2011 -- had promised to carry out a "modernising" vision for the railways laid out by Banerjee, who served as the previous rail minister.

Singh appealed to fractious coalition allies to back reforms to spur growth of Asia's third-largest economy.

"This is an occasion we must eschew narrow partisan ends and stand united as a nation," Singh said.

Banerjee's Trinamool Congress Party is an increasingly unreliable government ally, which sank plans last year to allow foreign supermarkets into India.

The storm over raising rail fares is the latest in a series of embarrassing internal policy disputes that have paralysed the government's liberalisation programme.

The government in its main budget last week steered clear of contentious "big bang" economic liberalisation measures in what it conceded was a deliberate move to ensure it won parliamentary passage.
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