Peace minister blasts at Maoists
With the presidential nominee of his party now almost sure
to clinch the coveted post of first president of republic
Nepal, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra
Poudel has said the compulsion behind forming "a new
democratic alliance" was to defeat the "despotic
character" of the CPN (Maoist) party.
Speaking at a programme organised on occasion of 26th B.P
Koirala Memorial Day Monday, Poudel who is also the
vice-president of the Nepali Congress (NC), said the CPN
(Maoist) party has not the "moral authority" to term the
new alliance as an unholy one.
Minister Poudel, who is known to be a staunch critic of
the former rebels, made this remark in response to Maoist
chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal's assertion on Sunday that the"unholy and unnatural alliance" of Nepali Congress,
CPN-UML and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) could
jeopardise the peace process at stake. Dahal, the man said
to be prime-minister in waiting, had also said that
implementation of the 12-point agreement, and the
constitution-making process would also be seriously
hampered if the new alliance sustained.
During a tea-planting ceremony he inaugurated at the B.P
Koirala Memorial Park which is being built in front of the
NC party office in Sanepa, Poudel also stressed the need
to adopt "B.P Koirala's philosophy" in the campaign to
institutionalize democratic republicanism.
Another NC vice-president Gopal Man Shrestha claimed that
the "political tradition of consensus and cooperation" was
strangely not seen in the CPN (Maoist) party, which has
emerged as the largest party in the Constituent Assembly.
B.P Koirala was the first prime-minister of Nepal and also
the co-founder of the Nepali Congress. He is also the
elder brother of Girija Prasad Koirala.
Blood-donation, tree-planting and other various programmes
were organized by the Nepal Students' Union (NSU), the
party's student wing, and other sister organisations of
the party across the country on the occasion.
nepalnews.com ag July 21 08
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