UML leader resigns from probe commission!

June 6, 2001
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Kathmandu: The freshly constituted inquiry commission by the new Monarch Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev to probe into the causes of the massacre inside the Royal Palace on June 1, 2000 is in a limbo.

The hitch in the initiation of the commission has come after one of the committee members, Madhav Kumar Nepal, resigned from the post of the “commission member”.

Newspaper reports say that Madhav Nepal simply rejected the “direct nomination” made by the King Gyanendra forwarding the reasons that it “should have come after completing all the necessary constitutional processes”‘.

Sources close to the UML say that a meeting of the UML party held Tuesday held reservations in the manner the King directly constituted the probe commission without apparently consulting the government of the day.

Some Constitutional experts too have opined that the formal announcement of the probe commission should have come from the appropriate channels of the government.

Madhav Nepal and his party sources also maintain that the commission should comprise some other members from other political parties as well.

UML sources also have objected to the three-day time allotted for the entire probe.

This new development in the country might delay the fact-finding mission’s job by few days more.

Informed sources maintain that when the King thus has announced the formation of the probe commission, it must have obtained the government’s nod. However, the government sources have kept a silence on whether King Gyanendra informed them about the formation of the commission or not?

Be that as it may, the formation of the commission is a positive sign for the impatient countrymen, however, the new development with Madhav Nepal resigning from the post might complicate the matter further.