Kapilbastu, Apr. 5: An all-party meeting was convened at the district administration office in Taulihawa, the district headquarters recently.

The all-party meeting decided that all political parties should cooperate with the police and the administration in maintaining the law and order situation in the district and ensure public security.

Similarly, the meeting decided that all-party consensus would be reached in the collection and updating of the names of voters at all the VDCs and municipalities before sending the voters’ list to the district headquarters. Representatives of the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, CPN-ML, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP) and National People’s Front took part in the meeting   chaired by chief district officer Sitaram Khanal.

Likewise in Rasuwa, an all-party meeting was organised here recently under the chairmanship of the chief district officer to maintain alertness on the maintenance of the law and order situation in the district. The all-party meeting was convened in view of the armed general strike on April 5 and 6 called by the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) and the possible damage the organisers were likely to inflict on government, non-governmental and private offices and installations. It is learnt that the meeting decided to enforce 24-hours stringent security measures at all the offices in the district to pre-empt any untoward incidents.

The meeting held discussions on a range of issues concerning beefing up the security at the offices including frisking people while entering the office complex, checking their identity cards and parking of government and private vehicles at a designated safe place and handing over of suspects to the security personnel.

Chiefs of the district law enforcement bodies, VDC chairmen, representatives of political parties, chiefs of offices, representatives of social institutions and organisations and businessmen were present at the meeting.