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Special Meet of NC CWC
Mobilise security organs, protect lives, Govt urged

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Apr. 9: The emergency meeting of the Nepali Congress urged the government today to mobilise all available security machinery to safeguard the life and property of the helpless people suffering from the sudden spurt of the Maoists inflicted terrorism and violence in the country.

According to a highly placed source, the National Security Council, after its meeting yesterday, has sent its recommendation for mobilising the Royal Nepalese Army in the Maoists-hit areas to His Majesty the King for decision.

The Maoists led ghastly attacks last week on police posts in four districts—Rukum, Dolakha, Palpa and Dailekh, which claimed the lives of more than 70 policemen, have been the focus of National Security Council meeting and today’s emergency meeting of the Central Working Committee of the ruling Nepali Congress.

After today’s three-hour long meeting of the NC CWC, which has been postponed for Thursday morning, the NC party spokesman Narhari Acharya informed that Prime Minister and NC Party President Girija Prasad Koirala was scheduled to go to the Royal Palace to receive a special audience from His Majesty the King today evening.

The CWC meeting, which started at 2:00 P.M., was postponed at 5:00 P.M. the Party Spokesman said, as the Prime Minister was to receive audience from the King in the evening.

The next meeting of the CWC is scheduled for Thursday. But the working committee of the party’s parliamentary party will sit tomorrow at 1 P.M. One hour later, the party’s parliamentary party will also hold a meeting.

After the meeting today, Spokesman Acharya said, "The emergency sitting of CWC today urged government to mobilise all the security machinery of the government to safeguard the live and property of the helpless citizens and provide all necessary assistance to the policemen deputed at the remote villages to protect the people’s life and property against the ongoing Maoists terrorism and violence."

Today’s emergency meeting, presided by Koirala, was attended by 22 NC CWC members including former Prime Ministers Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and Sher Bahadur Deuba and 20 invited members. The meeting urged the government further to take up peaceful measures to solve the present adverse situation, Acharya added.

Likewise, the CWC condemned the Maoists’ acts of terrorism that have caused the damages and pains to people and various organisations, he said.

Acharya said that at the meeting, the government had presented two reports respectively from Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Ram Chandra Poudel and Defence Minister Mahesh Acharya.

Three other members - Bal Bahadur Rai, Bimalendra Nidhi and Narahari Acharya - had spoken at the meeting. Meanwhile, the Spokesman said no one raised the issue of the resignation of Prime Minister during the meeting.

Poudel’s reports contains description of Maoists activities and the measures to implement security to curb terrorism and violence while that of the Defence Minister dwelt on the internal security process, Acharya said.

However he declined to say about the detailed of the reports saying that the reports are being still discussed.

Referring to Armed Police Ordinance which could not be passed from the Parliament because of the Opposition led deadlock, the NC spokesman said that the process to activate the Ordinance has got underway.

Meanwhile the NC decision making body has also passed a resolution paying homage to those duty-bound policemen and other innocent people who died in the Maoists’ inhumane, cruel and armed attacks. The resolution also condoled the bereaved families.

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