Home Minister Kamal Thapa has claimed that major parliamentary parties in the country are trapped in a Maoist-hatched conspiracy.
Inaugurating the 16th district council of the district development committee of his home district Makawanpur on Friday, the interior minister said, “Nepalis are not positive towards the talks going on between the Maoists and the political parties in New Delhi for the past two weeks.”
“The coalition of seven parties is forging an alliance with the Maoists in New Delhi with a clear goal of toppling ‘rajya satta’ (the state authority),” reports quoted Minister Thapa as saying.
“To demand constituent assembly at gun point is nothing but pure terror,” he said, adding, “The state will never make any compromise with terror.”
Meanwhile, the official RSS news agency quoted Minister Thapa as saying that the government was serious in improving the security condition and restoring peace within a year in the nation in order to conduct parliamentary elections.
“The main intention of His Majesty the King is to restore sustainable peace in the nation and giving continuity to democracy, and not to bring autocracy and the Panchayat system,” he added.
A largely peaceful popular movement had toppled the Panchayat system in 1990 thereby ending the three-decade-old direct rule of the monarchy.