INDIAN AMBASSADOR CONSULTS PRESIDENT UPDATE ON ELECTION GOVT. Kathmandu, 17 Feb.: Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad held consultations with President Dr.. Ram Baran Yadav Sunday. The meeting was held as major opposition parties have been charging India for engineering the latest political move to install an election government to headed by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi to constitttuent assembly (CA) elections possibly in May, The president is at the center stage of politics to install an election government to replace a 18-mopth government of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. The political situation is fluid amid the efforts to assemble a new government. A eight-member task force of the Big Three and five Madeshbadi Morcha in government Sunday began work to prepare framework for a new government to be presented to the leading political players for approval later in the day. Nnnn FOUR COMMUNIST PARTIES TO OPOSE REGMI-LED GOVT. Kathmandu, 17 Feb.: CPN-Maoist and three splinter communist groups are staging street protests in the capital and other urban centers Sunday to stop installation of an election government headed by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi. The communist parties said such a government should be led by political parties. Saturday’s planned protests were derailed by rain. nnnn VENDORS REMOVED FROM POKHARA STREETS Kathmandu, 17 Feb.: Amid clashes, town authorities began removing vendors off the streets of the resort town of Pokhara Sunday. An estimated 1,200 vendors work off the streets in the town. nnnn