UCPN (MAOIST) TAKES IMPORTANT DECISIONS UPDATE Kathmandu, 28 Oct : The UCPN (Maoist) has taken important decisions on the issues relating to the political consensus, its upcoming general convention and party Transformation, RSS reports. A meeting of the party central committee took place at party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal´s residence at Lazimpat on Sunday morning ended with three important decisions on the issues above mentioned. As per the decisions, party Chairman Dahal will take the responsibility of group management and production for the transformation of the party. Similarly, Vice Chairman and Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai is given the responsibility to look after the development projects and finance department. Likewise, the meeting has allocated the responsibility to look after the disciplinary section to party´s another Vice Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha. The meeting has made some decisions regarding the preparations for the party upcoming general convention and decided to call the meeting of the general convention preparations committee on November 21 and to gear up for holding the general convention within the scheduled date. Likewise, the meeting has agreed to intensify talks and discussions with other political parties with top priority in the days ahead , too so as to give a way out to the nation from existing political and constitutional crisis, said Vice Chairman Shrestha after the meeting. Party Chairman Dahal has briefed the meeting about his separate meetings with Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala, CPN (UML) Chairman Jhalanath Khanal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal held on Saturday in connection with giving a way out to the nation. It would be better to transform the incumbent lead by the UCPN (Maoist) into the government of national consensus for holding fresh election since the party was the single largest party in the previous CA election and had announced the fresh election itself, Shrestha claimed. Published on 2012-10-28 16:17:18 Ma ONE DEAD IN UDAYAPUR Kathmandu, 28 Oct.: Hari Khadka, 33, of Rupatar VDC -9 in Udayapur has been found dead at a paddy field nearby his home, RSS reports from Udaypur.. According to police inspector of District Police Office Udayapur , Krishna Paudel, he was found dead at the paddy field at 10:00 pm Saturday night. Police team deployed from Katari has reached the site sent the body to Katari Hospital for post mortem. He used to consume excessive amount of alcohol, said villagers. The site is in hilly area 55 kms north-west of Katari Police Office. RSS Nnnn KHURSHID NEW INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Kathmandu, 28 , Oct 28: Indian Premier Manmohan Singh brought seven new faces into his cabinet Sunday in the biggest reshuffle since his re-election as he tried to revive his party´s flagging fortunes before polls due in 2014,AFP reports from New Delhi. Singh named Salman Khurshid, 59, as a replacement for the 80-year-old foreign minister S.M. Krishna as he attempted to dispel the image of a struggling government, which recently lost its majority. However there was no place at the cabinet table for Rahul Gandhi, the 42-year-old scion of the Gandhi-Nehru political dynasty, who once again turned down an offer to enter government. Speaking to reporters after a swearing-in ceremony for the new ministers, Singh said he expected his new team to remain in office until the next elections. "Probably this is the last reshuffle," the prime minister said at the presidential palace in New Delhi. "I don´t see early elections. Elections will be held in due course." The law ministry went to Ashwani Kumar, a ruling Congress party loyalist. The other newcomers include Rahman Khan who was named as minority affairs minister, Ajay Maken who becomes housing minister and Dinsha Patel who is now mines minister. They will be joined by Pallam Raju, who was promoted to human resources development minister. Harish Rawat was placed in charge of water resources and Chandresh Kumari was appointed culture minister. Singh named parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal as new railways minister, a post which became vacant following the pullout of a regional ally, Trinamool, from the ruling coalition in September. The government has been mired in scandal in recent months, most notably by revelations surrounding the tender process for state-owned coal mines. Economic growth, which had been touching double figures at the beginning of Singh´s second term, has now slowed down to around five percent. Trinamool´s pullout in protest at a series of economic reforms means the government is now a minority administration. It is no immediate danger of falling as it has secured the support of another regional party which is outside cabinet. Analysts doubted that Sunday´s ministerial overhaul will do much for Congress´s fortunes when the country votes in an election scheduled for the spring of 2014. "The cabinet reshuffle is a wake-up call which has come too late, just as the big-ticket reforms have come too late," said Ajay Saha, a political scientist at Delhi University. Khurshid, who is a Muslim, said the new ministers were expected to think "out of the box". The new foreign minister told reporters that he saw "great opportunities... but also great challenges to peace and prosperity in our world". Singh confirmed that he had offered a cabinet post to Rahul Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather all served as prime minister, but the offer was declined. "I wanted Rahul Gandhi in government but he wants to strengthen the party," Singh said. Gandhi currently serves as a member of parliament and heads the youth wing of the main ruling Congress party. Singh himself, who turned 80 last month, is not expected to run for a third term in office. Nnnn