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Govt For Polls Sans CPN-Maoist

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By Sagar Ghimire

The government and the High Level Political Committee (HLPC) have said they will move ahead with the plan to hold the election on the scheduled date of November 19 as the efforts to woo the agitating CPN-Maoist led 33-party alliance have been in vain. The talks between the HLPC and the agitating alliance broke down last Monday (September 16) after the CPN-Maoist remained adamant on its ‘four-point’ proposal. The four-point proposal comprises of convening a Round-Table-Conference (RTC) to take decisions on the basis of consensus, dissolution of the Khil Raj Regmi-led government to form an all-party-government or Regmi’s resignation from the post of Chief Justice to accept the current government, and the deferral of CA polls to April.

“The demand on the four-point proposal of the CPN-Maoist to defer the polls was unacceptable to us,” Nepali Congress vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel said, reasoning the failure of the talks. Likewise, CPN (UML) leader Raghuji Pant argued that the real intention of the CPN-Maoist was not to join the poll process. “They are using the talks as a time-buying tactic,” Pant said.

Blaming the HLPC and the government for the failure of the talks,CPN-Maoist secretary Dev Gurung reiterated that his party would not join the poll process unless their demands for Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi’s resignation and the poll deferral, among others, are met.

Meanwhile, the government has signaled that it will now move ahead with its poll-plan even without the participation of the CPN-Maoist led agitating alliance. As per this decision, the government had forwarded an ordinance that provisions a 601-member size CA in accordance with agreements with some political parties last month. President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has endorsed the ordinance. While the government and the HLPC are planning to go ahead with their poll-plan, the agitating CPN-Maoist has said it will disrupt the election at any cost.

“We have not closed the door for talks yet. However, if the government dares to move ahead with its poll plans unilaterally, we will foil it,” CPN-Maoist secretary Gurung said holding a press conference last Tuesday at his party office in Buddhanagar.

 

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