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'Placing Nepal on the priority list of French aid
recipients is my main agenda.' -- Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, talking to reporters before
embarking on an official visit to France. 'Everybody should now think with a cool head. It is not proper to continue
obstructing parliament.' -- Lokendra Bahadur Chand, former prime minister and leader of the Rastriya
Prajatantra Party, in Bimarsha. 'We will not back down from our demands for the PMís resignation under any
pressure.' -- Pashupati SJB Rana, lawmaker of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, in Drishti. 'I have already formed my opinion. I am for giving the ancestral property
rights to daughters.' -- Taranath Rana Bhat, Speaker at the House of Representatives, in Ghatana Ra
Bichar. 'It is not a simple labor movement against the hotel owners but a political
game that is far away from reality.' -- Narendra Bajracharya, President of Hotel Association of Nepal, about the
ensuing differences between hotel workers and owners, in Jana Bhawana. 'All kinds of alternatives should be explored without putting prime
ministerís position at risk.' -- Sarbadhan Rai, Nepali Congress MP, in Nepalipatra. 'The situation five years ago was hopeless. But now, Nepal is regarded a
model country to make exemplary progress in the control of tuberculosis.' -- Dr. Dirgha Singh Bam, director of National Tuberculosis Center and SAARC Tuberculosis Center, in Punarjagran. “He may be visiting France to engineer another 'Lauda scandal.' Perhaps,
his visit is part of the game-plan to bring in Air Bus (for the Royal Nepal
Airlines).” UML general secretary Madhav Nepal, addressing the press in Dang, in
Kantipur.
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