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'Shun remours'
Deuba asks Maoists to cancel Tundikhel rallies

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Sept. 4: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has asked the underground CPN-Maoist to cancel its mass meetings that are scheduled to be held at Tundikhel (open-air theater) on September 17 and 21 respectively.

Premier Deuba said that the upcoming second round of government-Maoist talks could be hampered if the Maoists continued their activities like mass meetings, extortion, forceful collection of donation and taking of the public vehicles, which were against their commitments with the government during the first round of peace-talks.

The government and the Maoist representatives had formally sat for the first time last week to resolve the six-year-long Maoist insurgency.

Premier Deuba also requested the people not to run after the rumours and misinformation regarding the Maoist issue.

Speaking at a function organised by the Ex-Parliamentarians’ Club here today, Prime Minister Deuba further said that the government had a copy of the commitment of the Maoists to stop their aggressive activities. "These kinds of acts only saddens the peace-loving Nepalese people," he added.

Deuba aslo reiterated that the government was committed to resolve the Maoist problem through dialogue and would leave no stones unturned in this regard.

Also speaking at the programme, former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai noted that the world had already bade farewell to politics of the arms and added that there was no alternative to democracy.

Stating that the trial and complete implementation of the present Constitution of the country was yet to be seen, Bhattarai said they would have to wait for al least thirty years for amendments in the Constitution.

Speaker Traranath Ranabhat said that it was the responsibility of the State to inform the people about the recently held peace talks between the government and the Maoists. "The government had to inform the public about what were the agenda of talks and the stand points of both the parties. But it is sad to note that it did not do so," he said.

Chairman of National Assembly Dr. Mohammad Mohsin said that if the negotiators of government-Maoist talks focused on the peoples’ problems, the peace-talks would succeed.

Leader of main opposition party CPN-UML Madhav Kumar Nepal said that they themselves were to be blamed for the emergence of the Maoist problem in the country.

Saying that there would be no compromise in the nationality and democracy, Nepal urged all the political parties and civil societies to move ahead by rising above narrow-mindedness and petty interest.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Ramchandra Paudel, Nepali Congress General Secretary Sushil Koirala, former Speaker Daman Nath Dhungana, former chairman of National Assembly Beni Bahadur Karki and CPN-ML leader Radhakrishna Mainali had also expressed their views at the function chaired by the Club president Ramhari Joshi.

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