Nepal Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (NWPP) Thursday said the King’s views expressed in an interview published in TIME, an American weekly newsmagazine, would not help solve the existing political standoff.
A meeting of the secretariat of the party this morning concluded that the King’s views were intended at protracting the problems rather than solving them.
“We completely differ with King’s views. He has hinted that he is up to sidelining the political parities,” Sunil Prajapati, secretary of the party, told Nepalnews. He informed that the party is firm on its demands that of the reinstatement of the House of Representatives as the first step to bring the ‘derailed’ constitution back on track.
The instated parliament, if any, according to him, should form an all-party government which will hold a conference of all the stakeholders in the national politics to form an interim government comprising of the Maoists too. “Such a government can only decide whether to go for a constituent assembly, constitutional amendment or a referendum,” said he.
Prajapati also said that the party has not yet made clear its stand on the Maoist demand of constituent assembly but was ready to go by the decisions of an interim government.