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NC meet decides to bury differences, forge unity

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Feb. 12: The three-day meeting of the Nepali Congress Central Working Committee concluded at the party’s central office here late this evening with the top brass deciding to bury differences and put up a united front to fight the present problems confronting the nation.

"Total unity within the party is the need of the hour," said former Prime Minister and founder leader of the Nepali Congress Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, the last speaker of the eight-hour-long meeting. "We should all be focussed on this."

Party President Girija Prasad Koirala, in his closing remarks at the meeting, called upon the party rank and file to forget minor differences and forge unity. "Let’s move ahead by forging a broad democratic alliance and consensus among the political parties that have faith on constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy and the present constitution to protect the nation and democracy," Koirala said. " The nation is at a critical juncture," he added.

Koirala said it was not good in a democracy to clamp an emergency and suspend civil rights and asked the government to end this situation as soon as possible.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba clarified on the issues raised by the party’s central leaders.

Today’s meet approved the report presented by the party’s General Secretary Sushil Koirala and decided to give directives to the government to implement it.

The meeting also decided to publish the final draft of the Nepali Congress Regulations 2054 B.S. by assigning the task to a committee coordinated by the General Secretary. Other members are Basudev Risal, Chiranjibi Wagle, Arjun Narsing K.C and Narahari Acharya.

Likewise, the meeting decided to appeal to all the parliamentary parties to endorse the proposal submitted by the government yesterday on the constitutionally declared State of Emergency.

The meeting also expressed condolences on the death of Nepal Sadbhavana Party leader Gajendra Narayan Singh and said that this was an irreparable loss to national politics.

The meeting also expressed condolences to the families of Nepali Congress’s Surya Bhakta Adhikari, Keshav Wagle and Hapu Gurung, who died recently. The meeting also expressed condolences on the deaths of Nepali Congress activists, teachers, security personnel and general people who have become victims of Maoist terrorists.

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