“The issues we have been raising are not partisan but broadly connected to fundamental rights of the people and the peace process,” said NC spokesperson Arjun Narsingh KC. “So we have decided to hold broader discussion on the issues with all the parties.”
Addressing the meeting, party president Girija Prasad Koirala asked party leaders and lawmakers to adopt strong measures to compel the government to address the party’s demands. NC lawmakers have already boycotted six meetings of the parliament accusing the prime minister of failing to meet the party’s demands despite the prime minister´s commitments.
NC has been demanding that the Maoists return the properties they had captured during the decade-long insurgency and in its aftermath, disband Maoist youth wing’s paramilitary structure and forge consensus while forming peace committees at the grassroots, among others.
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