NC President Girija Prasad Koirala, accusing the King for the current political stalemate and instability in the country, said that he would initiate dialogue with the Maoists and bring peace in the country by bringing them into the mainstream of the Nepali politics.
Saying that the protests will continue until the ‘peoples rights are fully stored,’ Koirala said he had nothing to say to any parties as, “the struggle is against the King’s regressive move.”
Koirala for the first time said that the NC was open for a constituent assembly and referendum. He even accused the King for ignoring the prevailing problems in the country.
Similarly, Amik Sherchan President of Peoples’ Front Nepal, an ally of the agitating parties, stressed on the need to formulate a new constitution through a constituent assembly. He even asked the CPN-UML to review the decision of joining the Deuba government and said, “the Deuba government is the continuity of regression.”
In the same vein, Narayanman Bijukchhe, President of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, said the UML’s move of joining the Deuba government was “an unfortunate move against the people and the communist movement.” He asked the UML to rethink the decision.
Bijukchhe also said that the formation of the Deuba government was a result of Indian and American interests. He, however, didn’t say anything more on it.
Bharat Bimal Yadav, Vice President of the Nepal Sadvawana Party (Anandadevi) said that UML’s decision to join the Deuba government was suicidal.
The leaders were addressing a mass gathering of party leaders and cadres of the four parties in a protest rally that chanted pro-democracy slogans, moved thoroughfares of the capital, before converging at Ratna Park.
It was the first mass-address program of the parties after the split of the UML from the five agitating parties.