Welldone Prashreet !

CPN-UML leader and noted litterateur Modanath Prashit announced to retire from the active political life on Monday. He had long been active in the communist movement of Nepal . He made the announcement to be away from the political life by organizing a press conference . Sixty-seven-year-old Prashit said he would spend rest of his life on literature, culture and history. He had been active in the communist movement since 1968 AD. Really Prashreet, you had better write socio-cultural writeups more and more. It is praiseworthy that you have made room for the creative youths. When will the oldies of Neplali politics learn this lesson ?

UML 8th convention

CPN-UML completed preparations for its 8^th convention that is due to begin in Butwal,  Monday. Security has been beefed up on the eve of the convention to be participated by the top leaders of major political parties and representatives from abroad.

General secretary of the party Jhalanath Khanal is scheduled to open the convention at 1 pm.

Convention representatives, foreign delegates and leaders from different political parties including former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala have arrived here to take part in the convention. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is expected to come tomorrow. Forty representatives of 21 political parties from 14 different countries are attending the event.

“We have tightened security keeping the convention in mind,” said chief district officer Dhubaraj Wagle.

He said that 2000 security personnel have been mobilised and a number of security teams comprising 40 security personnel have been deployed on the southern areas of Kapilvastu, Nawalparasi and Rupandehi districts keeping in view the sensitivity in those places.

Vehicles that pass through the highway have been stopped from playing.

Wagle said there wouldn’t be any security problems to convention participants, in case that happened the security forces have been instructed to take action immediately.

There is coordination between the party volunteers and police force, according to Wagle.

Ishwor Pokharel, coordinator of the central publicity committee said more than 1000 volunteers would be in action on the inaugural day and about 350 on the following days.

Standing Committee member Pradeep Nepal said that efforts were underway for consensus to elect the new leadership.

His village is waiting for him

BY BRABIM KUMAR KC
It has been almost more than a year that we haven’t met each other; I always had a very positive impression about him. A creative guy, an enthusiastic youth leader and a social entrepreneur, Last time when I was at his village, he had shown many things that he and his team has done in their village. They had started a small library without any support from donor organization. They had a small saving group where they used to save some amount of money every week. They had formed a youth group to protect their community forest and already started plantation of some herbs. Everything was so appreciating. I hadn’t read a single spot of frustration on his face. Though he had expected some fund from V.D.C, as they were youth they were not supported a single penny. Not only V.D.C local political leaders were also in against of their campaign, as we all aware about the politics in Nepal.

After a year, I got call from an unknown number; the voice said “Namaste”. It was the same soft and energetic voice. He had decided to go abroad and before leaving Nepal he wanted to meet me. The next day we met at a tea shop. He said “I am going Arab day after tomorrow”. I am confused, is he a same energetic guy? The same entrepreneur who had brought many changes in his village? I was paused for some minutes. I just said; take care, have a safe journey. Please return soon with some skills and knowledge, the country needs you.

The whole night I think about him, why he want to go abroad? What made him so frustrated? The politics? The conservative society? The more expectation from his parents?

Thousands of youth are moving in the same way, what will the effect of this mass migration? Have anybody has taken it in seriously?

After some months, I again went to his village, the library was not there, youth saving group has been already collapsed, and community forest users group was inactive. It was very hard to meet a single guy of age 20.

The village was just waiting “HIS” return for the continuity of the projects he had started and for the transformation of society. Who knows what he is doing in the desert of ARAB? Who knows when he will come back again?

Matrika to reconstitute CPN-Moist

Expressing dissent with his ‘former’ party, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in which he has been the politburo member, Matrika Yadav Wednesday declared in a press meet that he had no relation with the UCPN-Maoist and that he would ‘reconstitute’ the CPN-Maoist.

Yadav, who has been a minister from his former party twice, blamed that UCPN-Maoist leadership had ignored the pledges made during the decade long People’s War.

“As our party has got united with groups and parties which are devoid of revolutionary thought, it has started working in a non-proletarian way, the party has taken a class coordination way, I declare that I have no relation with the UCPN-Maoist and now onwards will work to reconstitute the CPN-Maoist as its central committee members,” he read out a statement.

He blamed the leadership for sidelining the revolutionary activists of the Madheshi origin.

Yadav said that he would talk with other dissidents of the party and reform it to continue with the spirit of the People’s War. He said that he would very soon give up the membership of the Constituent Assembly and start fresh agitation with demands for the rights of the people.