A member of the govt. negotiating team and Minister Pradip Gyawali (File Photo)
A member of the government negotiating team and Minister for Culture, Tourism, Civil Aviation Pradip Gyawali said a political conference involving all sides—as being demanded by the CPN (Maoist)—can be organized without dissolving the reinstated parliament.
Addressing a function organized in the capital on Saturday, Gyawali said outcome of such a conference could be then discussed and moved forward by the House of Representatives reinstated on the basis of the people’s movement 2006.
Minister Gyawali – who is also a central committee member of the CPN (UML)– also urged the rebels to review their demand for dissolution of the reinstated House saying that the House was needed as a ladder to move towards the Constituent Assembly. ‘’We are insisting to continue the House since ‘regressive elements’ could have a chance to play if the House was dissolved without holding elections to the Constituent Assembly,’’ he said.
Minister Gyawali also alleged that ‘regressive forces’ were active in making the present government a failure. He did not elaborate.
Meanwhile, Minister of Education and Sports Dr. Mangal Siddhi Manandhar has said Maoists should gradually prepare themselves for competitive politics. He also said people had sovereignty vested in them because of the reinstated House of Representatives. ‘’The sovereignty could be snatched as soon as the House of dissolved,’’ said the minister addressing a function organized by Nepal Intellectual Council in the capital on Saturday.