BY CHANKY SHRESTHA
पाठ्यक्रममा कुनै समय एउटा निबन्ध पढ्नुपथ्र्यो- हिरो बाई मिस्टेक । बस्तीमा फैलिएको आगो निभाउन प्रमुख पात्रले कुनै काम गरेको हुँदैन संयोगले ऊ साहसिक नायक ठहर्छ । नेपालमा दुई नायक अत्यधिक चर्चामा छन् । सिनेमामा राजेश हमाल र राजनीतिमा गिरिजाप्रसाद कोइराला । संयोगले दुवैको नायकी बाई मिस्टेक हो । (more…)
BY CHANKY SHRESTHA
माधव नेपालको ‘संघर्षको मैदान’ सकियो र ‘सत्ताको मैदान’ सुरु भयो ।
रुक्मांगद कटवाल प्रकरणबाट संवैधानिक राष्ट्रप्रमुखले मैदान’ सकियो र ‘सत्ताको मैदान’ सुरु भयो ।
रुक्मांगद कटवाल प्रकरणबाट संवैधानिक राष्ट्रप्रमुखले मन्त्रिपषिद्को निर्णय आफ्नै ुविवेकुअनुसार नमाने पनि हुन्छ भन्ने नजिर कायम भएको छ । त्यसमा कांग्रेसलगायत दक्षिणपन्थी दल र ुव्यावसायिक बुद्धिजीवीहरुले ल्याप्चे लगाइदिएका छन् । सामान्य राजनीतिक चेतना हुनेलाई पनि थाहा छ सरकारले संवैधानिक राष्ट्र प्रमुखको मृत्युप्रस्तावको सिफारिस गरे पनि उनी त्यसमा सही गर्न बाध्य हुनेछन् । तर यहाँ लोकतन्त्रलाई नै कांग्रेसलगायत दक्षिणपन्थी दलको सापेक्ष बनाइएको छ । एमालेकै उत्तोलनमा आएको दोहोरो सत्ताको स्थिति उसैका लागि घाँडो हुनेछ । (more…)
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 ?
CPN-UML completed preparations for its 8th 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.
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.
Finance Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai strongly reacted to remarks by UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal on Maoist army as irresponsible and termed this as “ghee for dogs they would fail to digest.”
At a press conference in Pokhara Thursday, Nepal had commented that the People’s Liberation Army members deserved to be jailed. Speaking at a local convention of party cadres in Panauti, Dr. Bhattarai said UML was creating hurdles in formation of local bodies. “This has hampered the implementation of the people-oriented budget programmes,” he said, while urging the UML to work together with Maoist party, “because all communists need to be united as a single party of the proletariat.” He argued that UML, which was reduced from its stature as the biggest party before the Constituent Assembly elections, would shrink further if it continued to act irresponsibly.
Dr. Bhattarai alleged Nepali Congress was ignoring the people’s verdict expressed through the CA elections and urged it to respect the mandate and join the government. Stating that it was guns that ended Gyanendra’s reign of guns, he warned of spearheading another revolution if hurdles were created in the way of people’s liberation. CA members and representatives of UML and NC also spoke at the function.
Meanwhile in Butwal, CPN-UML Standing Committee Member and Publicity Department Chief Ishwor Pokhrel said though the UML was in alliance with Maoist at present, his party would protest every wrongdoing of the Maoist. He expressed such views while addressing a regional cadres’ meet in Butwal Saturday. Urging Maoists to give up the misdeeds, leader Pokhrel further said the forthcoming general convention of the party would review its alliance with the Maoist.
He added that his party would adopt a tit for tat policy if the assault on party cadres was not ended. Meanwhile RSS ads that President of Nepal Majdur Kisan Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe Saturday has blamed other communists parties that are in the government were not real communists in their conducts and theory. Speaking in a programme organised by his party to award the prize of district level boys and girls Kabbadi winners, Bijukchhe said his party was in opposition because other communist parties that are in the cabinet are moving forward saving the capitalistic government. In the competition, on boys’ side Bhaktapur Municipality Workers’ Union and Unique Unity team bagged the prize of first and second with Rs 4000 and Rs 2000, Shield, Medal and Certificate respectively. Bayasi Jankala Sadan and Sahid Smirti Bachanalay jointly received the third prize winning Rs 1000. Likewise, on the girls’ side Mt. Everest Higher Secondary School, Nepal Revolutionary Students’ Union second and Bageshwori Higher Secondary School got the first, second and third prize respectively.
Ten Nepalis working in Qatar died in the current month till date, while one of them committed suicide on December 21, the next day he reached there.
It is learnt that Sher Bahadur Budha, 37, from Mijhing VDC, Ward No 7 of Rolpa district killed self hanging in his room. However, the reason behind the suicide is yet to be revealed.
As late Budha had no relatives there, Nepali Embassy took initiative to send the dead one to Kathmandu, it is said.
An official in the Embassy Ali Muddin said a relative of the dead Budha was in Saudi Arab and was requested to call other relatives in Kathmandu from Rolpa to send the dead body.
According to a record in the Nepali Embassy, among the total Nepalis died in December, six died due to heart attack and one in road accident.
Similarly, another one died falling off height and the next in the workplace.
Two killed and hundred passengers were injured in a bus accident occurred at Gokarna, Kathmandu on Saturday evening. The deceased are yet to identified.
A bus with the registration number Ba 1 Kha 6207 which was crowded with picnickers from Tyanglafant of Kirtipur collided with another ( Ba 1 Kha 5180) injuring 100 passengers.
Twelve passengers injured seriously it the incident have been undergoing treatment at Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj while others in the Nepal Medical College, Attarkhel.
Due to unexpected influx of the patients, some have been receiving treatment on the floor in the hospital.
According to Metropolitan Police Sector Gokarna, the accident was caused due to brake failure on the sloppy road in which a bus hit a stationary bus in the rear.
The picnickers who are the share holders of Mahadev Shakti Finance of Kirtipur said the accident occurred also because of the drunk drivers.
There were 300 passengers crammed in the two buses.
Most of the injured were children, it is learnt.
Chairperson of Constituent Assembly (CA), Subas Nemwang made it clear that he was not abducted by Federal Limbuwan State Council (FLSC).
Organizing a press conference at his office Singha Durbar, Monday, he expressed surprise over the rumors of his abduction by FLSC cadres even while he was holding a cordial meeting with them.
Some television channels, FM radios and on-line media were transmitting news on his abduction by FLSC cadres in Chandragadhi today on the way back to capital from Ilam.
He also made it clear that some 15-20 FLSC cadres cordially stopped his vehicle at around 12 noon today for a while and urged him to reach their demand of autonomous Limbuwan state to the government.
“They cordially presented before me their grievances about non-implementation on the part of the government of their demand of autonomous Limbuwan state integrating nine districts of Mechi and Koshi despite various knockings and urged me to impart this message to the government”, said CA Chairperson Nemwang, adding that, “Ï have also assured them in this regard”.
All these things were discussed hardly in 10-minute talk; I left for Kathmandu from Chandragahdi where I reached there at 2 pm afternoon and arrived here at 2.30 pm via flight, said Nemwang. “And I do not know from where I was abducted”.
Kathmandu valley remained tense throughout the day from early morning Thursday following a protest by the locals and relatives of Ritesh Rauniyar ,15, and Ashish Manandhar, 15, whose dead bodies were recovered at Gumalchowki jungle, Thankot, in the capital on Wednesday.
Locals and relatives of the deceased took to the street demanding stern action against the culprits. The meeting of the Civil Struggle Committee, under which the protestors demonstrated, has put forth a five-point demand with the government.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Office, Ranipokhari, Thursday afternoon formed a five-member investigation committee under the chairmanship of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and chief of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division Office (MPCD) Birendra Babu Shrestha.
The demands of the struggling committee included formation of a high-level expert investigation committee, formation of judicial commission, maximum punishment to the guilty and ensuring security of every individual.
Meanwhile, responding to the queries of journalists, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bam Dev Gautam said that the government is ready to hold talks with the civil struggle committee and that the government is committed to book the guilty very soon. Minister Gautam expressed his sorrow about the incident and urged not to take to the street. Demonstrators picketed Kalimati Police station this morning for almost 2 hours. Areas including Kalimati, Kalanki, Balkhu, Teku, Tripureshwor, Thapathali and New Road were tensed due to the protest.
Half a dozen of public as well as private vehicles were vandalised during the demonstration.
On Wednesday evening, the agitators demonstrated at Kalimati against the killing of Rauniyar and Manandhar, residents of Tahachal. Both the deceased teenagers had disappeared since November 15.
Rauniyar was the ninth grader of Wilson Academy, near Bafal and Manandhar was also a ninth grader of New Jenis Secondary School, Bhurungkhel. Both of the deceased teenagers were from Taahachal-13, Kathmandu.
Relatives of the deceased said they would not accept the dead bodies until the police investigated the killing and took action against the culprits. The postmortem of the teenagers was performed on Wednesday at TU Teaching Hospital.
Deceased Ashish’s father Shree Prasad Manandhar accused that the police ignored their appeal for searching the two boys who were missing for the last 11 days. Dead bodies of Rauniyar and Manandhar were recovered from the jungle in Gumalchowki, Thankot, Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, transport services in Kathmandu valley were disrupted from early morning as students and relatives of the two teenagers staged protests in several places in the capital.
The protestors alleged police authorities were not serious even after the parents of Rauniyar and Manandhar reported their disappearance on November 16.
Civil struggle committee member Ram Sharan Dangol said that the committee has demanded guarantee of security for every citizen. “We are not seeking any compensation for the incident but rather urged to book the guilty into the police net and to find out the fact and truth of the incident,” Dangol said.
