NEPAL, INDIA HOME SECRETARY-LEVEL TALKS SATURDAY Kathmandu, 30 May: The Nepal-India Home Ministerial level talk is taking place in Kathmandu on Saturday, RSS reports.. The talks will dwell on matters relating to curbing cross-border criminal activities and improving security arrangement along the border of the two countries, Spokesperson of Ministry of Home Shanker Prasad Koirala said. 'The ministerial level meeting will hold discussion on the matters related to mutual interest and benefits, said Koirala. The bilateral meeting would also touch on the measures both the countries could take up to curb human and drug trafficking and smuggling of Indian fake currency notes. An 18-member talks team headed by the Home Secretary of India arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday to take part in the meeting, Spokesperson Koirala added. Home Ministry Secretary Nabin Kumar Ghimire is heading the Nepali delegation in the meeting. The meeting is to be attended by 18 high-ranking government officials of Home Ministry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. Prior to this, the bilateral meeting had taken place in New Delhi of India. Nnnn MAHANTHA THAKUR SAYS GOVT. CHIEF CAN CONTINUE AS CJ Kathmandu, 30 May:: Chairman of the Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP), Mahantha Thakur, has said Chairman of the Interim Election Council (IEC), need not resign from Chief Justice (CJ), RSS reports from Biratnagar.. He made this remark while talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport today at a time when the leaders of different political parties have begun to talk about the IEC Chairman Regmi's resignation as the CJ. Similarly, Chairman Thakur said there should not be threshold of vote for ensuring the representation of fringe political parties, indigenous nationalities, women, and all people in the Constituent Assembly (CA) election. He claimed that the political parties have made no agreement regarding the threshold of vote and registration of candidacy by a person, who is convicted of criminal case, to participate in the CA election. Thakur, however, said the political parties have forged consensus to limit the CA members to 491 against 601 in the first CA but the number could be increased if another consensus was forged among the political parties. He further said that there was a little bit delay on declaring the date for the CA election as some laws regarding the CA election process were in the process of study. During the meeting, leader of TMLP, Sarvendra Nath Shukla, said it has been the time for uniting Madhes-based political parties learning from their split in the past. Nnnn KAMAL THAPA SAYS SYNDICATE OF FOUR BE SCRAPPED FOR FREE POLLS Kathmandu, 30 May:: Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Chairman Kamal Thapa has said that doubts remain regarding the constituent assembly (CA) elections by third week of November, RSS reports from Butwal.. Speaking at an interaction in Bhairahawa on Wednesday, leader Thapa said the four-party mechanism should be scrapped to conduct the CA elections in a free and fair manner. Government's failure to announce the CA polls date even after two months of its formation, failure to draft the electoral laws and agitating political parties against the CA polls have added doubts to the timely CA elections. Meanwhile, Co-Chairman of RPP-Nepal Padma Sundar Lawati has warned to welcome the dethroned King Gyanendra Shah back to the Narayanhiti Palace by waging protests if the CA election was not conducted by mid-November. Addressing an election campaign in the district headquarters of Therathum today, Lawati also accused the republican era's ministers of indulging in corruption. People would internalize democracy if a Hindu kingdom was reinstated, Lawati claimed. nnnn