Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand said Saturday that the political parties that failed to turn up at the all-party meeting in the offing would be excluded from the peace talks with the Maoists, reports from the district said.
Speaking at a programme organised in Phidim by the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Chand said a committee for the talks would be formed by including the representatives of political parties that attend the all-party meeting.
Meanwhile nearly two hundred students showing black fags to Prime Minister Chand upon his arrival in Biratnagar were charged with batons by the police. Several students were injured in the incident. The students protested against the recent killing of student leader Devilal Poudel in Butwal and
the steep hike of petrol prices.
Prime Minister Chand was visiting Biratnagar to inaugurate the newly constructed building of the Morang Industrial Organisation. The agitated students vandalised several shops and vehicles after the police tried to disperse them and charged them with batons.
Similarly, Chand faced protests from students in Terathum the same day. Chand visited Terathum to distribute land ownership certificates to the victims of the Myanglung fire.
At the function organised in Myanglung, Chand said the government was looking towards restoring permanent peace in the country through peace talks and to hold the elections to the House of Representatives as instructed by the King. nepalnews.com am Apr 13