"We are proud we created a new political situation in the country. Now we want to more rationalize our priorities."
Maoist chairman Prachanda at a program organized by the World Bank where the Maoist leadership tried to clarify their economic policies to the donor representatives.
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“Some forces want to drag us in multiparty parliamentary politics to tarnish our revolutionary image. We are stick to our ideology of Maoism.”
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, spokesman of CPN-Maoist in Nepal Television.
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"The UML wants the government to withdraw nominations and the Maoists to maintain peace in order not to disrupt the environment of talks."
Amrit Kumar Bohara, acting general secretary of the Unified Marxist Leninist (UM).
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"If this provision is actually implemented, door will be opened for foreigners to receive Nepali citizenship."
Chitra Bahadur KC, president of a faction of People's Front Nepal, saying that the provision of providing citizenship based on birth could have disastrous impact for the country.
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"The organization which was formed with the motive of launching people's war needs some changes as the party has now entered political mainstream."
CP Gajurel, a senior leader of the Maoists, about the decision of the central committee to restructure the party organization, in BBC Nepali Service.
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"We have proposed his name for Nobel Peace Prize because of the mature and miraculous role he played in bringing a party engaged in violence and terror to the mainstream politics."
Mahendra Sharma, president of Nepal Students Union (NSU) – student wing of Nepali Congress – proposing the name of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala for Nobel Peace Prize, in Nepal Samacharpatra daily.
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"At the local level there is no political leadership, there is only anarchy."
Narendra Bahadur Bam, president of the Environment Committee at the House of Representative, reaching the conclusion after making a field trip to the project site of Melamchi Drinking Water Project.
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"We won't let any pro-royalist to hold any political program in the valley in future."
Padma Ratna Tuladhar, human rights activist and chairman of Newa Republican Front for Autonomy, in The Himalayan Times.
Transition
APPOINTED: Former Chief Justice Biswonath Upadhyaya as the chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Gauri Pradhan and Leela Pathak as members of the Commission, by the cabinet.
NOMINATED: Fourteen persons as ambassadors in various missions abroad, by the special cabinet meeting. They include Shailaja Acharya for India; Tanka Karki for China; Dr. Suresh Chalise for the United States; Bhagirath Basnet for the United Kingdom; Nabin Prakash Jung Shah for Thailand; Pramesh Hamal for Belgium; Dr. Surya Kanta Mishra for Qatar; Hamid Ansari for Saudi Arabia; Bal Bahadur Kunwar for Pakistan; Pradeep Khatiwada for Bangladesh; Dr. Ganesh Yonzon for Japan; Guna Laxmi Sharma Bisokarma for Myanmar, Dr. Surya Kiran Gurung for Russia and Dr. Dinesh Bhattarai for UN Permanent Mission in Geneva.
UPHELD: Nepali Citizenship Act 2006, which was recently enacted by the parliament, by the Supreme Court (SC), in response to a writ petition filed challenging the act.
HELD: The central committee meeting of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) at Mahendranagar.
LEFT: Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel, for Moscow, Russian Federation, at the invitation of Chief Justice of Russia.
ELECTED: Subodh Pyakurel, as the president, Kedar Khadka, as the vice president and Dr. Gopal Krishna Shiwakoti, as the general secretary of the Human Rights Home. Other members of the HRH include Purna Basnet, Chakra Man Biswakarma, Mandira Sharma, Tikaram Bhattarai, Bishnu Khatri and Raju Thapa.
BEREAVED: Govinda Chimaouria, a journalist working AT Radio Nepal, of his father, who died at the age of 68.
