Maoists not helping my job: PM
BIRATNAGAR, May 14 - Reiterating that the country has already embarked on the path to republicanism, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Monday said that the nation would become a republic the day the king becomes non-existent with all his powers stripped off.
PM Koirala further claimed that the king's existence has been reduced to a mere "20 percent".
Talking to journalists at his hometown Biratnagar, Koirala said that 80 per cent task to declare Nepal a republic has been finished and that Nepal would have full democracy the day the remaining 20 per cent of the task is over.
"The king is visiting temples, making sacrifices ? 20 per cent of him is still (felt) there," the PM said.
PM Koirala said that a new date for the CA polls would be decided through an eight- party meeting upon his return to the capital.
PM Koirala currently is in Biratngar, where he reached yesterday on a three-day rest-break.
PM Koirala today confided that the Maoists' lack of experience in democratic exercises was not helping his job as the Prime Minister.
Hinting at the Maoists, the premier asked the journalists gathered at his Biratnagar residence how appropriate it was for the activists of a revolutionary party to beat up women and lock in one of their own leader while inebriated.
Likewise, venting ire over remarks that the elections cannot be held even in mid-November, PM Koirala said, "The elections will take place by mid-November and as long as I am here, I will not allow the eight-party unity to break at any cost".
Flaying the accusations that the eight-party meeting was not getting off ground due to the Prime Minister, he said, "It is not because of the prime minister that the eight-party meeting has not happened? ? it is the prime minister who is keeping the eight parties alive".
Stating that he would issue whips to the Nepali Congress (NC) parliamentarians directing them not to disrupt parliamentary proceedings on his return to the capital, the PM warned of "birth of dictatorship" if the Interim Legislature-Parliament proceedings continued to be disrupted.
Amid demands for Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula's resignation from within the NC rank and file, the PM said that the minister would be relieved of his duties the day he "ceased to be of use".
PM Koirala also met with security heads of the eastern region this morning and directed them to streamline the security deployment in the region.
PM Koirala further claimed that the king's existence has been reduced to a mere "20 percent".
Talking to journalists at his hometown Biratnagar, Koirala said that 80 per cent task to declare Nepal a republic has been finished and that Nepal would have full democracy the day the remaining 20 per cent of the task is over.
"The king is visiting temples, making sacrifices ? 20 per cent of him is still (felt) there," the PM said.
PM Koirala said that a new date for the CA polls would be decided through an eight- party meeting upon his return to the capital.
PM Koirala currently is in Biratngar, where he reached yesterday on a three-day rest-break.
PM Koirala today confided that the Maoists' lack of experience in democratic exercises was not helping his job as the Prime Minister.
Hinting at the Maoists, the premier asked the journalists gathered at his Biratnagar residence how appropriate it was for the activists of a revolutionary party to beat up women and lock in one of their own leader while inebriated.
Likewise, venting ire over remarks that the elections cannot be held even in mid-November, PM Koirala said, "The elections will take place by mid-November and as long as I am here, I will not allow the eight-party unity to break at any cost".
Flaying the accusations that the eight-party meeting was not getting off ground due to the Prime Minister, he said, "It is not because of the prime minister that the eight-party meeting has not happened? ? it is the prime minister who is keeping the eight parties alive".
Stating that he would issue whips to the Nepali Congress (NC) parliamentarians directing them not to disrupt parliamentary proceedings on his return to the capital, the PM warned of "birth of dictatorship" if the Interim Legislature-Parliament proceedings continued to be disrupted.
Amid demands for Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula's resignation from within the NC rank and file, the PM said that the minister would be relieved of his duties the day he "ceased to be of use".
PM Koirala also met with security heads of the eastern region this morning and directed them to streamline the security deployment in the region.
Source: The Kantipuronline, May 15, 2007
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