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Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula has claimed that the Maoists would rejoin the government after the Dashain festival.
Talking
to Kantipur at the Biratnagar Airport on his way to his home district
Jhapa, Sitaula also claimed that the new date for the Constituent
Assembly (CA) elections will also be fixed shortly after the Dashain,
which ends next week.
Home Minister Sitaula is also a senior NC
leader who played an important role in forging the alliance of the
parliamentary parties and the Maoists that led to the April uprising.
The
Maoists quit the coalition government on … after Prime Minister Girija
Prasad Koirala-led Nepali Congress (NC) did not agree on the new
“pre-requisites†demanded by the Maoists for “meaningful†CA elections.
The
Maoists have even summoned the special session of the interim
parliament to fulfill their key demands--immediately declare the
country a republic and make a provision for a proportional
representation system of voting for the CA elections.
The poll
has also been put off indefinitely and the country is facing political
and constitutional crisis due to the stand-off between the NC and the
Maoists.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Sitaula reiterated that the government will
take all seven parties on board to deal sternly with the groups
unleashing violence, abductions, extortions and murders in the Terai.
When
asked about the government’s effort to find the whereabouts of
journalist Birendra Sah, Sitaula said that the government was “hopeful
about disclosure of his whereabouts†as the home administration has
intensified the search and parliament has also formed a panel to probe
his case.
A parliamentary panel was formed on Tuesday to find
the whereabouts of journalist Sah, who was abducted 13 days ago from
Bara district by the Maoist cadres.
Expressing concern over the
failure to find the whereabouts of journalist, a meeting of the
parliamentary Human Rights and Social Justice Committee held in the
presence of Speaker Subash Nembang formed a four-member panel led by
lawmaker Urmila Aryal.
Sah, a Bara based journalist- affiliated
to Nepal FM, Dristri Weekly and Avenues TV was abducted by Maoist
cadres on October 5 from Pipara Bazaar, Kalaiya VDC-6, the district
headquarters of Bara.
