Parties not serious enough: Dr. Lohani 

January 23, 2004
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Finance Minister Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani said Friday the largest parties of the country are not serious enough towards resolving the prevailing problems.

“Parties show their firm belief in multi-party democracy and constitutional monarchy. In contrast to this, they order their cadres to chant anti-King slogans at the streets,” Dr. Lohani said at an interaction program in the capital.

The minister further urged parties to agree upon the King’s 7-point agenda to build national consensus. “The government, parties and the King do not have ideological conflict. So a national consensus is possible among them.”

Criticizing UML’s 9-point roadmap, Dr. Lohani blamed UML of “misleading” people with the map. At the same program, UML standing committee member, Bharat Mohan Adhikari highlighted UML’s roadmap. He said, “The roadmap is an answer to solve all existing problems in Nepal.”

Stressing five parties’ unity, Adhikari warned the government “not to use force to suppress students’ peaceful agitation against regression.”

Nepali Congress (NC) leader Sunil Kumar Bhandari flayed the King and the Maoists, saying, “They are obstructing a national consensus.” He, however, said, “A Republic is not what NC stands for. We are for constitutional monarchy.”

Amik Sherchan, President of Janamorcha Nepal, asked the King to leave the supreme post in the Royal Nepal Army (RNA). “As long as he remains in the supreme post of the RNA, I can not accept him as constitutional King,” he said, adding, “A constitutional King does not hold such a post.”

Sundar Mani Dixit, a rights activist, said there is an immediate need to dismiss the present government to move forward for resolving the current conflict.

“The present government is the only obstacle in resolving the current crisis,” he said.