The mainstream political parties Wednesday reiterated their determination to launch a massive movement against the existing establishment very shortly and claimed that the movement would be a decisive one to restore the democratic rights of the people.

Representatives of the Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist), United Peoples’ Front Nepal (UPFN) and Nepal Workers’ And Peasants’ party participated in a joint meeting organized in Bhaktapur Wednesday to chart out plans for the united struggle.

Nepali Congress Joint General Secretary Govinda Raj Joshi maintained that the Chand government was attempting to prolong its term in office by delaying the peace process. UPFN Chairman Amik Sherchan alleged that the King had been ignoring the demands put forward by the four political parties to ‘rectify the mistakes committed in course of executing state power.’

“The movement in the offing will be different than the movement of 1990, we do not intend to strike an agreement with the King this time,” Sherchan said. NWPP President Narayan Man Bijukchhe stressed the need to unseat the present government and thereafter form an all party government having full state power that could put back the Constitution in the right track.

Meanwhile Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala addressing a mass meeting organized to mark the 13th anniversary of the peoples’ popular movement claimed that ‘monarchy’ and not the political parties was the major reason for the existing political instability in the country.

He also said the government had shown its repressive attitude by firing at students who were protesting peacefully in Butwal.

Koirala also announced that Devilal Poudel, President of the Progressive Students’ Union killed in police firing in Butwal Tuesday was the first martyr in course of the ongoing movement against the regressive forces. nepalnews.com am Apr 10