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Kathmandu Friday August 10, 2001 Shrawan 26, 2058.
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RPP’s Tamang resigns from
key party posts
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Aug 9 – Buddhiman Tamang,
Central Working Committee (CWC) member of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) today resigned
from three party posts protesting "lack of trust and discipline and light-hearted
approach" to serious issues.
He submitted his resignation to the party’s
Central Committee meet that concluded today. He quit from the party’s Central
Committee, Central Working Committee and the party’s parliamentary committee.
Speaking to The Kathmandu Post, Tamang, who is
also a lawmaker in the Lower House, said that the party top brass failed to control the
anomalies, accusing the party leaders of not showing the required seriousness to arrest
the growing discipline.
Party sources said that Tamang was cut up with
the top brass for failing to take action against party General Secretary Pashupati
Shumsher JB Rana and Central Committee member Rabindra Nath Sharma who, along with four
others, had defied the party whip and backed the party’s rebel candidate in the
National Assembly elections held on June 27.
Although the official candidate Lok Bahadur
Thapa Magar won at the voting, Rana and five others had voted for Jog Mehar Shrestha, the
party’s rebel candidate.
Meanwhile, the RPP today passed its political
report presented by the party’s General Secretary during the party’s four-day
long CWC meeting that concluded today.
The meeting urged to seek a solution to bring an
end to the "polarisation" between the parliament and the Maoists. The party said
that the various problems faced by the nation could be solved under the system of
constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy. RPP also condemned a tendency of the
politicians to disregard the constitutional monarchy, and relating the King with the
Maoists.
It also called for a change in the present
system due to the "abuse of parliamentary norms". The party hoped that the talks
between the government and the Maoists would succeed and urged the rebels "to stop
all acts of violence that are still going on".
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