The CC meeting held at the Prime Minister´s Office recommended Babu Ram Acharya as the chief of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and Neel Kantha Uprety as the chief of the Election Commission. [break]
Acharya who has a long experience in bureaucracy retired recently from the post of secretary at the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management. Uprety has been working as the acting chief election commissioner after then chief election commissioner Bhojraj Pokharel retired.
The CC recommended Udaya Nepali Shrestha as the chief of Public Service Commission and Bhanu Acharya as Auditor General. Both Shrestha and Acharya are formal secretaries. They holds long experience in civil service.
"I will conduct my duties in the capacity of CIAA chief commissioner in a free and impartial manner," Acharya told myrepublica.com after the CC´s recommendation.
Uprety, who graduated from the UK in information technology, holds long experience in conducting elections even in conflict prone countries. He has worked as the technical advisor to the United Nations on conducting elections in war-torn countries.
The recommendations by the puppet government are a part of conspiracy to breach past agreements. We will never accept CC´s recommendations.
-- Dr Baburam Bhattarai, vice chairman, UCPN-Maoist
-- Dr Baburam Bhattarai, vice chairman, UCPN-Maoist
"I will conduct the future elections in an exemplary manner," Uprety said after the CC´s decision, adding, "I will make effort to institutionalize democracy by conducting free and fair elections using modern technology."
Uprety is credited with making the Election Commission well equipped.
The CC also recommended Bisheshwar Man Shrestha, Drona Raj Regmee, Him Bahadur Gurung and Munilal Yadav as CIAA commissioners. Shrestha is the professor at Tribhuvan University; Regmee is former Acting Deputy Attorney General while Gurung is a former Deputy Inspector General of Nepal Police and Yadav a civil engineer. Former Additional Inspector General of Nepal Police Keshav Baral had already been appointed as the member of CIAA.
The CC recommended Ram Sworup Sinha, who retired recently as secretary at the Ministry of Education, as the member of Public Service Commission. Likewise, Dr Bhola Shah and Ms Bhushan Shrestha have been recommended as the members of the Election Commission.
Those recommended by the CC will assume their posts once the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee endorses their names.
A PMO source said the PMO will forward the names to the parliamentary committee on Sunday. President Ram Baran Yadav will appoint the recommended names in the respective posts after the hearing committee endorses their names.
The recommendations have riled the main opposition UCPN-Maoist, which boycotted Friday´s CC meeting. "The recommendations by the puppet government are a part of conspiracy to breach past agreements. We will never accept CC´s recommendations," said Dr Baburam Bhattarai. "We warn the government to immediately scrap the decision."
The CC comprises of Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker, main opposition leader and two ministers appointed by the PM.
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