Leaders of parliamentary political parties have warned that any attempts against today’s historic parliamentary proclamation, which has made the people sovereign, will be futile.
Speaking at the meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) before the voting on the parliamentary proclamation presented by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, leaders of the parliamentary parties said today was the historic day in the country’s political history, declaring that autocracy would never raise its head in future.
“Now history is not going to repeat; country will only move forward. Any side going against this declaration would face people’s uprising,” CPN (UML) general secretary and MP, Madhav Kumar Nepal said while commenting on the proclamation.
He further said the parliamentary proclamation has come as per the aspiration of the people’s movement and has established that there is no power above the people and the constitution. “All sectors of the country should now adopt the concept of inclusive democracy,” he said.
The parliamentary proclamation, he said, has been brought despite all kinds of rumors that the parties were lacking courage to bring it before the parliament.
Similarly, commenting on the proclamation, president of Nepali Congress (Democratic) Sher Bahadur Deuba said those going against it “will be digging their own grave”. He said the focus should now be on restoring peace in the country.
The proclamation presented before the House terminated the provision of Supreme Commander of the army, a post earlier held by the King, turned His Majesty’s, Government into ‘Nepal Government’ and the Royal Nepalese Army into ‘Nepal Army’ declared Nepal as a secular state and scrapped the Raj Parishad, among others.
The draft of the proclamation presented by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala after consensus in the Council of Ministers and the seven-party alliance, was endorsed by the HOR unanimously.
Similarly, describing the proclamation as historic, NC leader Sushil Koirala said that, after this declaration, no dictators would dare to raise their heads in Nepal as well as elsewhere in the world.
Rastriya Prajatrantra Party (RPP) chairman Pashupati Shumsher Rana also expressed support to the historic parliamentary proclamation as well as the proposed constituent assembly elections.
Communist leader and MP Chitra Bahadur KC was of the view that as the feudal autocratic rule has now become history after the parliamentary proclamation, the Maoists should also come to the political mainstream.
Nepal Peasants and Workers Party chairman Narayan Man Bijukchhe, People’s Front Nepal’s Pari Thapa, Neppal Sadbhawana Party’s Yagya Jit Shah, Sadbhawana (Anandi Devi) leader Hridayesh Tripathi also gave their views in support of the proclamation and stressed on ‘total democracy’ through election to constituent assembly.