KATHMANDU: Nepal Bar Association, through a statement on Tuesday, has urged the government to seek solution through dialogue in case of the activities carried out by the Biplav-led group.
NBA General Secretary Khamma Bahadur Khati in a statement said that solution should be sought in a political way while reminding that the control and force in political movements in past did not brought positive results.
NBA has further urged the government to withdraw its decision to ban activities of Biplav outfit.
KATHMANDU: Commercialization of private schools would be ended and the quality of community schools will be enhanced, Spokesperson of Nepal Communist Party, Narayankaji Shrestha has claimed. He was of the opinion that it will eventually contribute to prosperity.
Spokesperson Shrestha reminded that his party had not struggled for status quo. Establishment of communist government should be linked to socialism oriented education, he argued.
He however said without ensuring positive change and quality in the education, prosperity was impossible.
KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress youth leader and former Minister for Health, Gagan Thapa left for USA on Tuesday.
He flew to the USA for study at Harvard University after the university approved his application. Thapa said he was awarded with a scholarship last year but failed to attend owing to personal reasons.
He will be returning Nepal after two weeks.
KAWASOTI: Police have arrested a district in-charge of Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) led by Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’.
According to the District Police Office, Nawalparasi, party’s district in-charge Ganga Gyawali was detained last night from his home at Bardghat-4 of Nawalparasi West.
Similarly, party’s district member Dhan Bahadur Mardaniya, 47, of Kawasoti municipality-15 has also been arrested by the police from his residence in Nawalparasi East. It may be noted that the government has put a ban on the party’s activities since March 14.
Following the prohibition, many leaders of the party are being arrested from various parts of the country.
KATHMANDU: The government on March 12 decided to ban the Biplav outfit following a series of bomb explosions across the country. The government started arresting Biplav cadres and leaders under a ‘search and arrest’ operation. The government has urged the Biplav outfit to come for talks within a month.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday gave a month-long deadline to the group to come for negotiation .
On the other hand, Bipalv has warned that his party would ban the government if the latter did not withdraw its decision to ban at the earliest, Annapurna daily reported.
KATHMANDU: Main opposition, Nepali Congress (NC) has blamed that the incumbent federal government was trying to exercise the centralized governance system and shadow other State agencies.
In a meeting of the NC’s parliamentary party here on Monday, the major opposition concluded that the government had intended to centralize rights of the executive body against the principle of power balance and decentralisation of power.
Informing the media persons of the meeting, NC Chief Whip Bal Krishna Khad shared that the NC assessed that although the constitution empowers governments in all three levels with authority, the central government had introduced many bills with an objective to centralize power.
He said that the NC suggested that the government revokes the three bills relating to the rights of the national security council, projects of national priorities and information technology as some points of the bills related to the national security council and national priority projects would vest more power to Prime Minister, while the bill relating to the information technology would infringe on the rights to the freedom of expression.
NC President and parliamentary party leader Sher Bahadur Deuba directed his party parliamentarians to play more effective role in the parliament so as to check the arbitrariness of the government.
KATHMANDU: The Constitutional Council (CC) has appointed Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, Secretary at Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the Election Commission Nepal.
The post was vacant after Chief Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav retired from the post on Sunday. Its member Ilama Sharma also retired on the same day.
The Election Commission has a team of five members including the chief. Narendra Dahal, Ishwori Prasad Paudyal and Sudhir Shah are the sitting members of the commission.
CHITWAN: Senior leader of Nepal Communist Party, Madhav Kumar Nepal today said the state should initiate action in the face of challenged posed by group.
The state is not a helpless entity, he said at a program in Chitwan.
The former Prime Minister Nepal termed the government’s move to bring CK Raut to mainstream politics.
On the occasion, Nepal further stated that all disgruntled sides should be brought into confidence. “The government should call them for talks,” he said.
BIRATNAGAR: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense, Ishwor Pokhrel said the army will be mobilized only with the decision of the National Security Council.
Talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport on Monday, Minister Pokhrel said the army can be mobilized only after the President approves a proposal brought by the Prime Minister in the capacity of the Chair of the Council and endorsed by the meeting of the Council of Ministers, if the Council’s meeting cannot take place.
He added that such a proposal has to be approved by the House of Representatives (HoR) a month after the army mobilization. Minister Pokhrel further maintained that it would be wrong to say that the Prime Minister can alone mobilize the army.
On the occasion, he said talks would be held with the Biplav-led faction only if it abandoned arms. “The government will not hold talks with a faction raising arms,” he said.
WASHINGTON: Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Mueller’s report does not clearly state whether Trump had tried to intervene in justice by undermining investigations that have dogged his presidency.
Even though the report brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting, said Attorney General William Barr Sunday.
Trump cheered the outcome but also laid bare his resentment after two years of investigations that have shadowed his administration.
However, his Democratic opponents are dissatisfied with the outcome of the long-awaited report and vowed to keep up their political assault against him.
Meanwhile, many of Trump’s opponents had accused the president of obstructing the Russia probe when he fired former FBI Director James Comey in 2017.