Vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers, Dr Tulsi Giri, has said that the government is working to hold the parliamentary elections which is a must to resolve the problems the country is facing.

Speaking at the inaugural function of the first national conference of the Federation of National Journalists (FENAJ), the second man in the royal cabinet Dr Giri also said that parliamentary elections are needed to check possible judicial anarchy in the country, according to reports.

“According to the constitution, the SC has the right to check the monarch’s powers, but in the absence of a parliament there is no one to check judicial anarchy,” he said.

Dr Giri however said that the government has accepted the Supreme Court’s verdict and scrapped the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC). “This is proof enough that the rule of law exists in the nation,” he said.

The royal appointed vice-chairman Dr Giri said the monarch has not violated any constitutional provision and challenged to produce evidence of any autocratic act of the government.

At a when democratic forces and foreigners are pointing out the need of consensus among the King and political forces to tackle the Maoist insurgency, vice-chairman Giri said he does not believe that reconciliation between the king and the parties can curb terrorism.

“I also do not believe that the so-called democratic rule can control terrorism. See how the world’s largest democracy, India, is suffering,” he said.

“I am not ready to accept the argument that the entire problem will be resolved once the King and the parties join hands,” Giri said, adding, “If that were so, why did the terrorist problem intensify when the King and the parties were together between 1996-2005?”

He ruled out the possibility of conditional dialogue with the parties and said that the parties’ stance on talks with the monarch was not clear.

Speaking at the conference of journalists who support the February 1 royal takeover, he said nationalist journalists have come up with a commitment to fight against misleading information.