NEW SECURITY STRATEGY FOR CONSTITUTION PROMULGATION

MAOIST CHIEF CONFIDENT OF CONSENSUS BETWEEN PARTIES
Kathmandu, 17 April: Chairman of the Unified CPN (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed the confidence that the political parties would be able to forge consensus within a few days as the environment of trust has developed among them of late, RSS reports.
Speaking at a sit-in held at the State Affairs Committee Hall by lawmakers as per their campaign of exerting pressure for peace and constitution writing here today, he said the constitution should be promulgated as per the due process if the political consensus was not forged. However, the environment for writing the constitution has been very positive, he added.
Chairman Dahal said, "One of the major tasks of the peace process, the army integration process, has been concluded, and now, we all have been working seriously to conclude the remaining task of the constitution writing process."
All the parties seemed to be very serious and making efforts on peace and constitution writing while evaluating their latest activities over the last two days. However, some other issues that are connected to the peace process such as formation of the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, the Commission on Enforced disappearances are still remained to be settled, he noted.
Dahal said the Constituent Assembly members' sit-in protest has provided the moral support to the leaders to take forward the constitution writing process. "There is no more need of sit-ins, let's work as per our shared aspirations," he added.
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NEW SECURITY STRATEGY FOR CONSTITUTION PROMULGATION
Kathmandu, 17 April: A new security strategy has been prepared to obviate possible risks during the period around the promulgation of the new constitution and also to maintain peace and security, RSS reports.

Organising a press meet here on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner's Office said the strategy would be implemented in three phases.

The implementation status of the new strategy would be reviewed in every 15 days and strengthened as per the need, said Spokesperson of the Office, Rabiraj Shrestha.

As per the security plan, 4,677 security persons would be mobilised every day in the three districts of the Valley maintaining coordination among Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and other security bodies, he added.

The first phase of plan will come under operation from April 13 to 28.

For the security in and around the Constituent Assembly building, three layers of security would be built up, Mr Shrestha said, adding that security check at every entry point of Valley would be beefed up.

Moreover, important locations across the Valley would have increased security surveillance while suspicious places would be raided, and security persons mobilised in civvies.

The Office further said that special security squad would be used, regular patrol arranged and campaigns launched in hotels, crime-prone areas and possible hideouts.
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