LINGO ERECTED AND PULLED DOWN SAME DAY FRIDAY IN BHAKTAPUR

LINGO ERECTED AND PULLED DOWN ONLY ON FINAL DAY
Kathmandu, 14 April: The lingo was erected only Friday after failed attempt to
erect it at Bhelukhel five days after the start of Bisket jatra, Kantipur reports from Bhaktapur
The lingo was erected at 11.45 in themorning.
The lingo should have been erected in the fourth day after the festival began.
Festivities were disrupted.
Puja at Taleju was also disrupted and statted only after. It was erected.
The lingo was pulled down at seven in the evening after public performed their
pujas.
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PARTIES READY FOR FINAL COMPPROMISE
Kathmandu, 14 April: With the peace process reaching an “irreversible point”, major political parties have made up their mind for what they call a “final give and take” on key contentious issues of the new constitution: federalism and forms of governance,The Kathmandu Post reports.
Leaders are scheduled to begin talks on constitution writing from Saturday. Sources said that while the Maoist leadership remains open about giving up its official stance in favour of ethnic federalism, Nepali Congress leaders have indicated that they could be flexible in their position on parliamentary system.
Some influential NC leaders said if there is a compromise, Congress is more likely to support either a “mixed model” or Maoist party’s presidential system on forms of governance, rather than CPN-UML’s directly-elected prime ministerial system. “If we put the country at the centre stage, it is better to accept presidential system rather than UML’s model,” NC leader Shekhar Koirala told the Post. “NC will certainly be flexible, though, admittedly, the presidential system will be a tough sell.”
Within the NC, there is a strong argument that adopting presidential model in place of the parliamentary system would mean losing ground to the Maoists. If this school of thought gathers momentum in the party, the result could be against the presidential system. “Given this complexity, it would not be a surprise if NC went for a mixed model, which proposes sharing powers between a directly elected president and House-elected prime minister,” said Koirala.
However, for any compromise on forms of governance, NC leaders have said that the Maoist party has to give up ethnic federalism. Despite an assurance from the Maoist party that it would not stick to ethnic federalism, NC leaders are yet to be fully convinced given the strong lobby for ethnic federalism from the Aadivasi-Janajati caucus.
There is serous suspicion that the caucus, which has 217 lawmakers in its command, could stop the Maoist leadership from giving up the ethnic line in federalism. A majority of the caucus members are from the Maoist party and they have been arguing that being the largest party, the UCPN (Maoist) cannot contravene its own election manifesto, which proposed 14-state ethnic federalism. The Maoist hardliners also have full support to the caucus. The compromise, if any, is equally thought for the NC, which has officially passed an improved Westminster parliamentary model.
However, the flexible position maintained by the UML leadership has encouraged the moderates across the party line to continue their effort for finding a meeting point through some give and take.
“The level of confidence of people is greater than ever that the parties would produce a new federal republic constitution. So, we must be ready to compromise on our stand for timely promulgation of the new constitution,” said UML Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal speaking at a tea reception at the party headquarters. “On forms of governance, we are ready to go any forms of governance that avoids instability and authoritarianism, and safeguards Nepalese diversity,” added Khanal.

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