NC, UML PROTEST FOR POWER GRAB SAYS UPENDRA YADAV Kathmandu, 2 Feb.: Chairman of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Nepal, Upendra Yadav, claimed that current street protests organized by the Nepali Congress, and the CPN-UML, including others, was just for gaining the state power. RSS reports from Biratnagar.. Talking to RSS at his residence in Biratnagar, he blamed the three major political parties of being guided by their partisan interests and establishing themselves as a key for the state power rather than settling the current political impasse. Forum Nepal Chairman Yadav said the nation has been the prisoners of indecision due to the major three political parties; as a result, it has faced the political complications. He further said that the Unified CPN (Maoist) had tried to capture the state power by dissolving the Constituent Assembly. The election government should be formed under independent leadership to end current political crisis. Nnnn BUT KOIRALA SAYS ITS FOR SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY Kathmandu, 2 Feb.: Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala has said that the current stir launched by the opposition parties was against autocracy, RSS reports from Nepalgunj.. "We were compelled to wage a struggle for safeguarding democracy when the UCPN (Maoist) was moving ahead against the democratic norms and values," Koirala asserted at a meeting with the NC cadres and its sister organizations in Banke. "The struggle of the oppositions is not meant for ascending to power. State power comes and goes; it is not a big deal in a democracy," he clarified, adding that the agitation was all for the need of bringing down the incumbent government heading towards establishing its totalitarian rule. Claiming that there has been broad-based public participation from different sections of society in the struggle launched by the opposition parties, leader Koirala said the people´s mobilization by ruling party UCPN (Maoist) to suppress the struggle was another example of autocracy. He also warned that the UCPN (Maoist) would be wiped out if it did not come to the path of consensus by mending its way. Koirala, however, said the oppositions have not shut the door for consensus despite agitation in place. He went on to say that the party cadres should rigorously engage their efforts towards the way as how democracy could be protected. The party president is scheduled to address a joint protest rally of the oppositions to take place in Nepalgunj on Sunday. nnnn