Kathmandu, Feb. 27:The group of nine leftist factions has demanded that the understanding reached between itself and His Majesty’s Government in last Bhadau be implemented.

At a press meet here today, the group demanded that corruption, smuggling and  revenue leakage widespread in the country be stopped and actions taken against those who are involved in such racket, a national human rights commission formed, all the unequal treaties including the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty abrogated and the Indian army evacuated from Kalapani.

They also underlined the need to work out national water resources policy in keeping with national interests, make public the decisions of the recently concluded Indo-Nepal border talks, enforce work permit for foreign nationals, withdraw the bill (2056 bs) designed to amend some Nepal acts concerning domestic administration brought about in the name of controlling terrorism and provide agriculture fertilizers and seeds to farmers on time.

A statement circulated on the occasion was signed by cpn-masal’s Chitra Bahadur kc, cpn-marxist’s Loknarayan Subedi, cpn-ml’s Rajendra Shrestha, cpn-mlm’s Ram Bahadur Shrestha, cpn-united’s Hemanta b. C., Nwpp’s Chandra Bahadur Ulak, Amik Sherchan of the Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal, Nar Bahadur Karmacharya of the cpn-unity Centre and Bhakta Bahadur Shrestha of the National Movement Coordination Committee.