Quote Unquote (Spotlight Weekly)

"The peace process, not the military action, is the main priority of the government."

Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa, in Kantipur.

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"Prime Minister Thapa who had claimed that he would resolve all problems within two months is morally obliged to climb down after 60 days in office."

Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML), in Drishti.

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"Maoists are trying to drive a wedge in the relation between the King and the army."

Sher Bahadur Deuba, former prime minister and president of Nepali Congress (Democratic), speaking at a program in Pokhara.

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"In the past the current finance minister Mr. Prakash Chandra Lohani used to term my budget as a joke. Now I term his budget as bubble in the air."

Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat, former finance minister and Nepali Congress leader, in Bimarsha.

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"The government will appoint a woman member at the National Planning Commission soon."

Kamal Thapa, Minister for Information and Communication, in Kantipur.

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"Even the contact by the Maoists with us has become one way."

Padma Ratna Tuladhar, a talks facilitator, in Himalaya Times.

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"I was the one who had brought the letter of ceasefire. However, only Deuba would know what kind of betrayal the Maoists later meted out to him."

Durga Subedi, former Congress leader who had mediated the last year's ceasefire between the Maoists and then Sher Bahadur Deuba government, in Jana Aastha.

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"I switched to anchoring only after being successful in singing."

Nalina Chitracar, pop singer-turned-TV anchor, in Gorkhapatra.

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