Nepal: PM rigid as Maoist deadline ends today

The Unified Communist Party of Maoists (UCPN-M) may have given Prime Minister Madhav Nepal a Wednesday deadline to quit...

The Unified Communist Party of Maoists (UCPN-M) may have given Prime Minister Madhav Nepal a Wednesday deadline to quit,but the message from the Prime Minister is equally rigid.

The Prime Ministers party Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML),which leads the ruling coalition,on Tuesday said the Maoists were making their own interpretation of the May 28 accord that saved the Constituent Assembly and avoided another crisis in the country. The Maoists had supported the government proposal for a one-year extension to the Constituent Assembly only after the Prime Minister said that he would resign soon to pave way for a national unity government. Nepal,however,had not given a specific date. He had put conditions that the Maoists must first honour commitments they had made in the past.

They (the Maoists) must first prepare modality for return of the property they confiscated during the years of conflict and parties should agree on the the modality of integration of Maoist combatants. They also must agree on formation of the national unity government, a senior UML leader told The Indian Express. The Maoists are playing politics of deceit by misinterpreting the accord in a way that suits them politically.

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Also on Tuesday,UCPN-M senior vice-president Baburam Bhattarai renewed a warning to the Prime Minister to quit. It will invite serious consequences if Prime Minister Nepal does not quit tomorrow as that is the end of the five-day deadline given to him to quit when three parties inked the accord, he said.

Meanwhile,Subhash Chandra Nembang,Speaker of the Constituent Assembly,has asked the Prime Minister to take the initiative for implementation of the latest accord at the earliest.

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