UML role crucial in coming days: MK Nepal
Undeterred by the party’s poor showing in the recently concluded Constituent Assembly election, ‘outgoing’ CPN-UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that his party has fulfilled “historical responsibility” by actively participating in the polls and has even urged the Maoists to do away with their pride for the sake of “better political understanding and cooperation”.
Addressing a programme organised at the Manmohan Smriti Pratisthan on the occasion of 9th memorial day of party’s former chairman late Man Mohan Adhikari Friday, Nepal said that CPN-UML would play a crucial role in drafting a “federal democratic republican constitution” through the constituent assembly and take the peace process to its desired conclusion in the coming days.
Nepal, who just before the polls had said that possibility of forging a leftist alliance had ended, has now after his party’s loss in the election and his own humiliating defeat in both the constituencies contended from has said his party is still looking to forge some kind of working alliance with the Maoists.
Similarly, CPN-UML’s acting general secretary Amrit Kumar Bohora said
rather than who won or lost the important thing is that the Constituent
Assembly election was successfully held.
Manmohan Adhikari, the champion of leftist movement in Nepal, became the first elected communist prime minister of Nepal and South Asia when he led a 9-month long minority government formed by his party 1996.
To mark his death anniversary, the Manmohan Memorial Academy organised a blood donation camp at Manmohan Memorial Park in Balkhu and also ran a free health checkup at a hospital built in his memory. nepalnews.com ag Apr 25 08
