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Kathmandu Saturday September 08, 2001 Bhadra 23, 2058.
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Maoists warned
to halt harmful activities
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Sept 7 - Home
Minister, Khum Bahadur Khadka has finally stepped up with rigorous warning that the
government will never stay tight handed if the Maoist -affiliated sister organizations
don’t stop their activities like extortion, intimidation and terrorism that cause
social unrest.
At the time when the
government has come down with liberal attitudes towards the rebels to solve the six
years’ old insurgency, the Maoists on the other hand, have intensified their
activities across the country," he said at an interaction programme, organized by
Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce (FNCCI) in the capital today. He also informed
that the government has adopted some specific strategies and will implement them soon to
improve the present law and order situation.
He said that people from
different quarters have started raising numerous questions over government’s patience
and warned that the government is about to break its patience pent-up for long.
The law and order situation
of the country has deteriorated after the rebels activities that have left no part
untouched with. Speaking at the programme Khadka said that the government taking the
proposed September 21 meet of the rebels into serious consideration has already formed its
strategies to abort it.
Minister Khadka said that
Maoists should not take the present liberal attitude of the government as its weakness.
"The government has come with the liberal vision just in an effort to solve the
problem peacefully," he said.
He also informed the
gathering that the government has started taking necessary measures to curb the illegal
activities of the Maoist- affiliated sister organizations.
"I have ordered police
to crack down such activities and the government is determined to take strongest action
against those engaged in such activities," he said.
Speaking at the same
programme, Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat assured the business community that the
situation will be back to normalcy soon. "Even though the present situation is
terrific and uncertain, business community should take patience as such situation will not
go last, " Mahat said.
He also said that since such
terrifying activities have affected the entire national economy, it is not a problem
related only with the business community and assured them that the government is fully
with them.
"The present activities
of the Maoists have put unnecessary obstacles in the ongoing process of economic
development resulting the increment in poverty and unemployment," he said.
Industrialists and
businessmen, at the program, complained that the various activities of the Maoists have
forced them to shut down the industries jeopardizing billions of rupees of industrial
investment.
Rabi Bhakta Shrestha,
President of the FNCCI said that the entire businessmen and industrialists have been
deeply frustrated due to the compounding anarchic and terrifying situation of the country.
"The continuously deteriorating investment of the country has greatly heightened the
possibility of huge capital flight,’ he warned.
He also expressed his
dissatisfaction over failure of the government to provide necessary security to the
industrialists even after levying one per cent security fee.
He urged the government to take
concrete measures to check the rapidly shrinking investment environment.
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