Quote Unquote (Spotlight Weekly)

"Summoning Congress leaders like Girija Prasad Koirala is a prejudiced and politically motivated decision. It will create more political trouble."

Shailaja Acharya, Nepali Congress leader, responding to the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA)'s latest anti-corruption initiative, in Nepal Samacharpatra.

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"I don't have any doubt that everyone needs to be transparent and open in a democracy. The present action of the CIAA is, however, a game inspired from behind the curtain."

Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala, in Himalaya Times.

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"The current CIAA action is aimed at derailing the people's movement against regression."

Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of Unified Marxist-Leninist, speaking at a public program.

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"Our committee was dissolved because of the unnecessary havoc created by convenors like Bharat Jungam, who acted more as if the high-level panel was meant to terrorize government employees."

Shreeman Shrestha, former chairman of the western region committee of the dissolved Administrative Committee, in Rajdhani.

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"The Maoists are still posing a grave challenge to maintaining internal security with their looted arms and the RNA wants to recover them at any cost before our movement is restricted."

Colonel Deepak Gurung, spokesperson of the Royal Nepalese Army, in The Kathmandu Post.

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"The staff of Radio Nepal first fail good singers in the voice test and then record the same song in their own voice."

Senior folk singer Kumar Basnet, in Gorkhapatra.

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"I want to play the role of a powerful woman. A woman who can fight against the injustice meted out by men, a woman who can give leadership to society."

Richa Ghimire, up-and-coming actress, in Spacetime.

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"The people of Rolpa are so honest that they built roads by volunteering their labor. But what did they get from the state in return? Nothing. Huge budgets were diverted for other areas, whereas our region continued to languish in non-development. In such a situation, it was natural to expect rebellion."

Bam Kumari Budha, former member of National Panchayat from Rolpa district, who is currently leading the cause of indigenous people, in Jana Aastha.

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