Maoist objects UML’s role in govt

The central secretariat meeting of the CPN-Maoist has strongly objected to the role of CPN-UML, the major coalition partner in the Maoist-led government.

“We will raise the issue at the meeting of the High Level Political Coordination Committee as the UML is playing a dual role– ruling and the opposition,” secretariat member of the CPN-Maoist C.P. Gajurel told journalists.

The statements made by some responsible leaders and groups of the CPN-UML were irresponsible and against the norms and ethics of the ruling partners, Gajurel said.

Meanwhile, the meeting also discussed about Party’s unification with CPN-Unity Centre (Mashal), CPN-Unified (Unified), and CPN-ML (Splinter group of CP Mainali led ML) in the near future.

When asked about the change of party’s name, Gajurel said that the existing name would not be changed rather ‘United’ would be inserted before Maoist.

In response to a query about the priest of Pashupati Nath Temple and order of the Supreme Court, Gajurel said that the government would file a writ petition against the SC decision demanding it be quashed, as the decision itself was wrong. “To ask the priests who have already resigned from their posts to work is totally wrong and against the existing law.”

“We have never talked and decided about unseating the sitting Chief of the Army Staff Rukmangad Katwal,” he said hinting at persons who were exaggerating the issue unnecessarily.

Ten Nepalese die in Quatar

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.

Picnickers’ another accident

 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. 

Cut Flower

BY PUSHPA MUNAKARMI

As he found a bud

he injected it with a chemical

to turn blooming flower soon

and by cosmetic surgery

it was given a next look Cut Flower

 

Hanging

a board of Cut Flower Center

He decorated

Cut Flowers in his shop for sale

the restaurants, hotels and

the bed rooms of so-called high classes

have been decorated with such flowers

to supply according to the demands made

 

Embroidered shop by Cut Flower

went up the hill of profit

 

Inspired by the profited business

when decorated the Cut Flower

the other restaurant and hotels

encouraged to decorate their restaurants

by Cut Flower.

 

Having notice of the business profit

when decorated the Cut Flower

the other owners

greatly enfluenced and decorated

their restaurants and hotels with Cut Flower

the drowned brokers exprted

beauty of Cut Flower of here

to the foreign countries.

 

They now

fearlessly began exporting

the Cut Flowers to the foreign

the increasing demand for Cut flower of here

added fuel to their courage

the brokers now marching forward to the rural area

and they shared the temptation

to the simple minded gardeners

to give a new look and turn into Cut Flower

to the bloomed flowers in the natural landscape

they inspired other gardners to plant flowers

and gave temptations

to handover early buds, before bloom

the addicted of Cut Flower

the customer of the beauty of Cut Flowers

surfing enter net sites

demanded the foreign Cut Flowers

the brokers

imported the Cut Flowers of foreign landscape

 

the so called specialists

from other part of the glove

giggled happily

with hospitality of Cut Flower.

 

Translated by – Ram Gopal Ashutosh

Subas Nemwang abducted ?

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”.

 

DREAMS

 BY ARATI SHARMA                                                  

 

 Dreams make you glorified

with stately position

of gratitude and desideration

Dreams, of course are vivid,

lavished and most cherished.

It infatuates you

into a world of mirage

and begs you to follow,

as it changes its shape.

But when it shatters

leaves you nothing

except sheer nothingness.

reality impeded with hinges

of desperation and loneliness.

With this the world

becomes black and  white,

your age leaving your life

time slipping through hands

and nowhere you can hide.

The vicinity of emptiness

embraces the broken heart

yet gives nothing

to your pacific eyes.

You cry, try to grasp

this life of nominal value

It is too late to decide

The tumults of your far cry

is pushing your life ahead,

You are already running

There is no time to see your

dreams behind.

 

 London-UK

Protest over killing of teenagers

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.

Murder condemned

Around 22 Members of Constituent Assembly, releasing a press statement here today, have condemned the abduction of Nirmal Pant and Pushkar Dangol, the residents of Kathmandu Siuchatar and their cruel murder.

The statement has alleged that YCL, the sister organization of CPN (Maoist) was involved in the incident and claimed that it clarifies that commitment made by CPN (Maoist) relating to peace, democracy and rule of law is hollow.

They have expressed support to demands raised by action committee formed voluntarily by citizens and expressed their solidarity towards their protest programme.

Navindra Raj Joshi, Gagan Thapa, Dhanraj Gurung, Jagadishwornarsingh KC, Kiran Yadav, Saraswati Choudhari, Motanidevi Khawas, Kavita Sardar Batar, Hira Gurung, Sita Gurung, Usha Gurung, Om Prakash Sharma, Krishna Kumari Pariyar, Narabahadur Pun, Nirmala Prasai, Pramila Rai, Badshah Kurmi, Bodh Narayan Sardar, Minakshi Jha, Rama Guragain, Rambati Choudhari and Shambhu Hajara Paswan are the assemblypersons who signed the statement.

Meanwhile in Lalitpur, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concern over the murder of two Kathmandu youths- Nirmal Pant and Pushkar Dangol.

NHRC member Gauri Pradhan said the Commission has started investigations in connection with the abduction of the two youths by the Young Communist League (YCL) and their killing.

“It is a serious human rights violation and a direct challenge to the rule of law to take people into control and kill them, and the Commission has taken this incident seriously,” Pradhan said.

The Commission has also drawn the attention of the government stating that the CPN-Maoist which is leading the government and its sister organization, the YCL, were not committed to human rights.

Stating the role of the government would be important in protection and promotion of human rights, Pradhan stressed that nobody should carry out activities which promote impunity.

(Courtesy:RSS)

Alas Sharada…..

I saw Sharada Adhikari few days back at Shahid Gate. She was waiting for a bus. Are you writing more stories ? She had said. These were her last words for me. Now she is no more. What a sad news !

Sharada, a litterateur popular in child literature, died of a motorcycle accident Sunday morning while heading towards the home of veteran litterateur Ramesh Bikal. She was at the backside of the motorcycle of Tej Prakash Shrestha, another litterateur known in child literature. At Chabahil, the wheel seized her shawl and she fell down the road and there was a spot death. Secretary at Child Literature Society Nepal, she was fighting for general secretary in its general assembly in the near future. Her rival was Krishna Deep Sigdel. Ramesh Bikal had invited her for lunch and discussion on this issue. 

Her husband had passed away six year ago. Now she is survived only by her young daughter Suyesha who is a bachelor level student.

Born on 2022, she looked very young to her age.

Her final rites were performed at Pashupati Aryaghat Sunday evening. Daughter Suyasha lit candle on her pyre. Kathako Kitab, Harayeki Chhori, Bais Patan Tripanna Tal and Musako Basai are some popular works of late Adhikari.

She was lecturer at Padma Kanya Multiple Campus and had been the member of Child Literature Society and Management Committee Member of Sajha Publication.

Perhaps, this incidence will never leave Ramesh Bikal and Tej Prakash Shrestha.

Farewell Sharada !

New Cabinet

Distribution of portfolio

1. Pushpa Kamal Dahal : Prime Minister, who will also look after the Ministry for Women, Children and Social Welfare (Maoist)

2. Bamdev Gautam : Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs (UML)

3. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai: Finance (Maoist)

4. Upendra Yadav : Foreign Affairs (MJF)

5. Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal) : Defence – (Maoist)

6. Bijaya Kumar Gachhedar : Physical Planning and Works (MJF)

7. Bishnu Paudel : Water Resources (UML)

8. Krishna Bahadur Mahara : Information and Communications (Maoist)

9. Jay Prakash Prasad Gupta : Agriculture and Cooperative (MJF)

10. Asta Laxmi Shakya : Industry (UML)

11. Dev Prasad Gurung : Law, Justice and Constituent Assembly (Maoist)

12. Rajendra Mahato : Commerce and Supplies (Sadbhawana)

13. Matrika Yadav : Land Reform and Management (Maoist)

14. Gopal Shakya : Youth and Sports (Maoist)

15. Renu Kumari Yadav : Education (MJF)

16. Pampha Bhusal : General Administration (Maoist)

17. Hisila Yami : Tourism and Civil Aviation (Maoist)

18. Giri Raj Mani Pokharel : Health and Population (Janamorcha)

19. Kiran Gurung : Forest Soil Conservation (UML)

20. Janardan Sharma : Peace and Reconstruction (Maoist)

21. Gopal Kinrati : Culture and State Restructuring (Maoist)

22. Ram Chandra Jha : Local Development (UML)

23. Lekh Raj Bhatta : Labour and Transportation (Maoist)

24. Ganesh Sha : Environment, Science and Technology (CPN-United)