Kathmandu, June 25: The government has been directed to prepare an effective national security policy in the backdrop of the increasing detrimental activities affecting the nation’s political, social, cultural and religious sectors.
The directive requires that the policy to be made after reviewing the existing concept of national security is able to check violence, murder, terrorism, unscrupulous external activities and malicious publicity.
The Nepali Congress Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting issued the directive to the government today in view of the new security challenges that have emerged in the country.
The directive is one of the four decisions of the CWC, which it wants the government to carry out immediately.
“Requirement of a national security policy has been felt to address the probable problems that could arise through undesirable external activities,” NC spokesman Narahari Acharya told the press at the end of the three-hour long meeting here this morning.
He said the need to check the external and internal effects of the economic criminal activities has also drawn the attention of all NC parliamentarians.
Acharya said national unity; independence sovereignty and protection of territorial integrity were the country’s primary subjects of national wellbeing.
Hence directive has been issued to chalk out a national security policy and strategy, which would be oriented to protect and promote the multiparty democracy, Constitutional monarchy, human rights, adult franchise, independent judiciary, security of the Nepalese at large and their right to live peacefully, he said.
The second directive issued to the government requires that it initiate steps to enact the law for the strengthening of all forms of institutions related with national security and also for coordinating the institutions for their effective mobilisation.
Similarly the third directive has asked the government to take into confidence the opposition parties and discuss elaborately how dialogue with the Maoists could be started remaining within the periphery of the Constitution to end instability and usher in peace and tranquility in the society.
The fourth directive requires that the government take immediate steps to formulate a concrete programme and an all party monitoring mechanism for the districts that have been lagging behind in the development front owing to the effects of violence and killings, Acharya said.
He said the CWC declared that there were two things, which had to be done by the entire Nepali Congress party in the line of achieving the above objectives.
Under the first responsibility of the party decided by the CWC comes the timely review of the policy paper passed by it some seven months back in the line of consolidating the party organisation to end violence and killings and fulfill the aspiration of the general people.
Similarly the second responsibility assigned to the party is to make concrete efforts aimed at translating into practice the pledges made in the election manifesto and also to carry out effective monitoring so that the faith of the people in the party is kept intact, Acharya said.
He said all CWC members apart from Minister for Water Resources Khum Bahadur Khadka and Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Poudel were present in today’s meeting.