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"If the House of Representatives is restored, the CPN-UML, not the Nepali  Congress, will be the largest party. So we can set up a coalition government  to sort out our problems."

-Nepali Congress president and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala.

"There is no question of reviving the House of Representatives, as it is  already dissolved, nor of reinstating the Sher Bahadur Deuba government. The  only option is to form an all-party government under Article 128 of the
constitution.

-Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of Unified Marxist-Leninist, in Kantipur Daily. 

"No one should mistake our patience for weakness. There is a limit to  patience."

-CPN-UML leader K.P. Sharma Oli.

"The present government's policy toward the Maoists resembles that of the Deuba government."

-Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand in Space-Time Daily.

"I want to caution the Nepalese people not to follow those who are exploiting Marxism to destroy the country."

-Former minister and CPN-UML central committee member Salim Miya Ansari, after quitting the party.

"I will transform the party into an election-winning machine."

-Pashupati Sumsher Rana, newly elected president of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), in Himalaya Times


"The big parties are thirsty for politics, but they shouldn't use poison to quench their thirst."

-Narayan Singh Pun, Minister of Works and Physical Planning and president of Nepal Samata Party, in Rajdhani.

"No woman is endowed with all the 32 virtues."

-Actress Jal Shaha in Gorkhapatra.



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