“The issue of constituent assembly is now under shadow. The main priority is to declare republic right away.”
Prachanda, Maoist chairman, addressing mass gathering in Janakpur.
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“I am sure the draft was prepared by the government. So I don’t believe any answer by any minister to the parliament.”
Narayan Man Bijukchhe, president of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP), claiming in the parliament that the King’s Democracy Day message was drafted by the government. He said that the message was prepared by the same people who had drafted the April 24, 2006 royal proclamation that revived the House of Representatives, in The Himalayan Times daily.
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“There is not enough legal basis to take action against the King on the basis of his message.”
Narendra Bikram Nemwang, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, talking with journalists in Biratnagar.
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“BP Koirala was one leader who could speak what he thought was right and could lead the mass. Others just follow the populist agenda.”
Kamal Thapa, former Home Minister, in Jana Aastha.
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“I don’t see any possibility of holding the Constituent Assembly on stipulated time given the current situation in the country.”
Khum Bahadur Khadka, senior Congress leader, in Jana Bhawana.
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“We have deposited all our weapons. People who claim that we have concealed weapons are trying to derail the peace process.”
Nanda Kishore Pun aka Pasang, deputy commander of Maoist army, in Nepal FM.
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“If they need security, the government is ready to provide it. But they should not move around with their private security guards.”
Gopal Man Shrestha, Minister for Works and Physical Planning, on the issue of Maoist leaders keeping their personal armed security guards, in Gorkhapatra.
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“The country is really in an anarchic situation.”
Dharma Nath Prasad Shah, Minister of State for General Administration, in Annapurna Post.
Transition:
LEFT : Madhav Kumar Rimal, chief editor and publisher of Spotlight Magazine, left for the United States , for health check up.
PASSED AWAY : Mohan Koirala, prominent litterateur, at the age of 80 in Kathmandu . Poet Koirala was undergoing treatment at Shahid Ganga Lal Heart Center . He had been suffering from cardiac diseases along with diabetes.
CONFERRED: Bijnan Acharya, a USAID/Nepal specialist, with the prestigious Thomas Jefferson Star Award for Foreign Service, posthumously, by t he US government. Dr. Acharya died – along with 24 other persons - in the helicopter crash in Taplejung on September 23. The award is the highest honor given by the State Department to an employee killed in the line of duty.
ARRIVED : Kamal Nath, Commerce Minister of India; Humayun Akhtar Khan, Commerce Minister of Pakistan; GL Peiris, Minister of Exports, Development and International Trade of Sri Lanka; and Dr. AB Mirza Azizul Islam, advisor for finance and commerce of Bangladesh, to attend the SAFTA Ministerial Council meeting.
APPOINTED : Devi Prasad Baral, as the general manager of Herbal Production and Processing Company Limited, by the government.
SUBMITTED : A report on Nepalgunj incident, by the probe committee formed to investigate the violent riots there last month. The committee headed by Appellate Court judge Purushottam Parajuli submitted the report to Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula.
