BAIDHAYA SAYS NATIONAL MEET TO LAUNCH NEW PARTY Kathmandu, 14 June: Maoist First Vice-chairman Mohan Baidhaya says a national meet Friday is being held to launch a new party. “Basically, this meet is for formation of a new party in a new manner. “We’ll make the process successful. The meeting will proceed with new commitment,’ Baidhaya told Mahima weekly newspaper which asked him the objective of the conference in the capital. Baidhaya charged Maoist establishment for abandoning ‘establishment of people’s republic’. “The biggest ideological difference is was to go for programme of loktantrik republic. Then steadily they tendencies of surrender began to appear,” the hard-line Maoist leader said. nnnn FURTHER DETAILS OF MADHAV KUMAR NEPAL, PRESIDENT MEET Kathmandu, 14 June: Senior leader of the CPN-UML Madhav Kumar Nepal, in a meeting with President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav on Thursday morning, urged the President not to issue any ordinances without national consensus, RSS reports. In the meeting held at the Rashtrapati Niwas, Maharajgung, former Prime Minister Nepal suggested that the President, in his capacity as the protector of the constitution, should not take any decisions without national consensus under pressure from domestic and international actors. Talking to the media after meeting the President, leader Nepal said Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai should not hanker after power rather give it up as he had done in the past. He added that the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML will convene a meeting of the major political parties, including the UCPN (Maoist), for forging national consensus. nnnn