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“W e cannot afford to fight for democracy over and over again. So, this is our decisive battle. We want the King without any powers like that of Lord Pashupatinath.”
Girija Prasad Koirala , president of Nepali Congress (NC) and former prime minister, addressing a mass meeting in Janakpur.
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“W e don't have to wait long to see the end of monarchy if it keeps going down the same line."
Madhav Kumar Nepal , General Secretary of the Unified Marxist Leninist, addressing a mass meeting in Janakpur
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“I t is a crime to pay tax to a government which is without representatives. Please lend your support to the stir by holding back tax payments.”
Gopal Man Shrestha , acting president of the Nepali Congress (Democratic), speaking at a mass meeting .
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“I f the House of Representatives is restored, it will totally transform the present political environment.”
Shushil Koirala , vice-president of Nepali Congress (NC), speaking at a face-to-face program organized by the Reporters’ Club.
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“E lection is not just a process of providing security and holding it. It should rather give outlet to the problems dogging the country."
Dr Ram Sharan Mahat , joint general secretary of Nepali Congress, speaking at an interaction program in the capital.
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“W e have been relieved of the factor that was obstructing us. The party (RPP) will now move ahead in the path of democracy with added energy.”
Pashupati SJB Rana , president of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), in Rajdhani.
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“T he government is unperturbed.”
Kamal Thapa , Home Minister, stating that the government will continue with its plan to hold polls, reacting to media queries after Maoist attack in Thankot .
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Transition
ELECTED: Sher Bahdur Deuba as the president, and Prakash Man Singh, Pradeep Giri, Chitralekha Yadav, Gopal Man Shrestha, Balkrishna Khand, Bimalendra Nidhi, N. P. Saud, Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar, Bal Bahadur K. C., Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat, Dr. Minendra Rijal, Chiranjivi Wagle, Purna Bahadur Khadka, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Man Mohan Bhattarai, Deep Kumar Upadhyaya, Amar Raj Kaini, Jeep Tsiring Lama, Mahalaxmi (Deena) Upadhyaya and Uma Adikari (from women’s quota), Dal Singh Kami (from Dalit quota), Indra Bahadur Gurung and Bhisma Raj Angdamba (from indigenous community quota), and Uma Kant Chaudary and Shiva Chandra Mishra (from Terai quota) as central working committee members of Nepali Congress – Democratic, by the general convention of the party.
APPOINTED: Gopal Man Shrestha , as the acting president, Prakash Man Singh and Bimalendra Nidhi as the general secretaries, Jeevan Prem Shrestha as the Central Office secretary of Nepali Congress – Democratic, by the elected party president Sher Bahadur Deuba.
DIED: Govind Biyogi , senior journalist and president of editor’s society Nepal , at the age of 76.
RESIGNED : Senior journalist P Kharel and editor of Nepal Samacharpatra daily, Pushkar Lal Shrestha, from the posts of general secretary and executive committee member respectively of the Nepal Press Institute (NPI).
ARRIVED: Sister Mary Nirmala MC, the successor of Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity (MC) of Kolkata, in Nepal , to participate in various activities.
EXPELLED : Home Minister Kamal Thapa, assistant ministers Ms Roshan Karki and Bhuvan Pathak, Padma Sundar Lawoti, former ministers Durga Shrestha, Rajiv Parajuli and Jagat Gauchan, from the ordinary membership of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) for six years, and Toran Bahadur Gurung, Pratap Ram Lohar and Brajesh Kumar Gupta, from the central working committee of the party, on disciplinary grounds, by the Party.
ELECTED: Kamal Thapa , as the president of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) dissident faction, by a special convention of the party called by the dissident faction.
LEFT: Mani Lama , state minister for health, for Beijing , China , to participate in the international conference on Avian Influenza.
FELICITATED : Renowned artist Durga Baral, A.K.A. Batsayan, critic Mohan Raj Sharma and humorist Bishwa Shakya, by Juhi, a literary magazine.
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