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VOL. 27, NO. 34, May 09, 2008 (Baishakh 27 2065 B.S.)
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Mission Unaccomlished?
By A CORRESPONDENT
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Sitaula: New role |
They may have tumbled at the polls. But their prospects of making it are not over yet.
According to sources, some key figures are nursing the hopes of making their way to the constituent assembly. Under the provision of the nomination of 26 members of the CA.
“The reason”, explained one, “our role has not been completed yet.”
Role? “Yes,” said he, “until the new constitution is made and elections for parliament held, the peace process will not be complete, nor our role.”
Sources said that a section of the influential Delhi establishment is keen to have home minister Krishna Sitaula, Nepali Congress leader Shekhar Koirala and the former UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal on board the 601-member constitution making body.
The list could even include one Amaresh Kumar Singh who shot into the front for behind-the-scene role in bringing the Maoists and the mainstream parties together for the 12-point agreement, in Delhi.
Will the unthinkable happen? It is anybody’s guess.
