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Kathmandu,Friday May 19, 2000 Jestha 06, 2057.
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All-party meeting inconclusive
By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, May 18 - On the eve of the Royal Address
at the 18th parliamentary session tomorrow, the all party meeting concluded today without
agreeing on its main agenda.
The meeting which was called to seek consensus on
programmes introduced by NC last year -- Bishweshore with Poor and Women Empowerment and
Income Generating Programme -- ended without consensus.
Nepali Congress urged parties to support the
programmes today. But CPN-UML rejected the request saying the programmes were there to
feed NC workers from the state coffers. "We don’t object to such programmes but
state coffer shouldn’t be used to feed party workers," said Ishwor Pokhrel,
UML’s Standing Committee Member.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) walked out of the
meeting. RPP boycotted the meeting after the Home Minister failed to respond to RPP’s
complaint about police harassment towards its party workers.
Minister for Information and Communications Jaya
Prakash Prasad Gupta, however, said that although the parties could not agree on
development programmes, consensus could be reached on reforms in educational sector.
Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Poudel, Home
Minister Govind Raj Joshi, Minister Gupta, CPN-UML’s standing committee member KP
Sharma Oli, Ishwor Pokhrel, CPN-UML’s central member Subash Nembang, RPP’s
Krishna Charan Shrestha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party’s Bhogendra Thakur, National Peoples
Front Chitra Bahadur K.C and Navaraj Subedi and United Peoples Front Lila Mani Pokhrel
attended the meeting. The meeting will be called again.
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