Mahottari, Mar 25 : Minister for Law and Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Mahantha Thakur has said that since it is the primary duty of the government to ensure security of public life and property and maintaining the law and order situation in the country, the present government was serious in this regard.
Talking to RSS in Jaleshwar recently, Minister Thakur stated that the present government was prepared to resolve the Maoist insurgency problem keeping with the parametres of the constitution.
Efforts are on for consolidating the law and order situation which is a big problem for the country and to make the administration more people-oriented keeping it aloof from politics, he added. The minister reiterated the government’s resolve to introduce new legislation on corruption control with the belief that such an anti-corruption campaign should begin at the centre.
Replying a question, Minister for Law and Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Thakur said that a new government had to be formed and leadership changed in order to resolve the existing problems in the country since the previous government could not ensure the security of public life and property as a result of the Maoist violence which has intensified in some hill districts. He said the government was moving ahead with programmes like “B.P. With the Poor”, Rural Self-Relaince, Women Empowerment and Skill Development Trainings for the unemployed youth in order to resolve the twin problems of poverty and unemployment.
Meanwhile in Rautahat, Nepali Congress central member and former minister Bal Bahadur Rai has said the time has come for all political parties to sit together and find a solution to the Maoist insurgency. Rai, speaking at a meet-the-press programme organized by the Nepal Press Union, Rautahat in Chandranigahapur recently, noted that as the politics of violence has been rejected everywhere in the world, the so-called “People’s War” will not be sucessful.
He also called on the Maoists to give up violence and come to the negotiating table.