KATHMANDU, March 20: The ruling alliance on Tuesday unveiled its Common Minimum Policy, Priorities and Resolution, pledging to conclude transitional justice and investigate the corruption of any era in the past.
The document was unveiled at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar, in the presence of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and the top leaders of the parties in the ruling alliance.
The policy, that places the supreme interests of the Nepali people at the center, aims to instill hope and faith by tearing apart the sense of despondency among the people.
The ruling alliance comprises the CPN-UML, the CPN (Maoist Centre), the Rastriya Swatantra Party, the Janata Samajwadi Party and the CPN (Unified Socialist).
Reviewing transitional justice
The government has announced its intention to investigate corruption from any era and punish the culprits.
Making this announcement as part of a joint resolution by the five ruling parties, Bishnu Paudel, coordinator of the coalition working group, emphasized that this initiative aims to instill the belief in society that corrupt individuals will eventually face legal consequences.
"We aim to establish in society that individuals engaged in corruption will eventually face trial through a thorough investigation of corruption-related matters and taking legal action against those involved," said Paudel
The policy includes programmes to activate the share market through policy reforms, to mobilize the climate financing, to implement the 16the periodic plan by carrying out an objective assessment of the 15th periodic plan, to free the financial institutions of anomalies and to resolve the problems of the cooperatives and microfinances.
Former Finance Minister and UML Vice Chair Bishnu Prasad Paudel read out the document on the occasion.
The Common Minimum Policy also states that the government will immediately make necessary legal arrangements to conclude the backlog of transitional justice in order to establish lasting peace in the country.
"Truth should be established on the basis of facts by keeping the victims of a sustainable peace process at the center. The conflict-induced pain should be addressed through justice, compensation, reparation, amnesty and reconciliation based on the truth," reads the document.
The government has said it will provide medical treatment, employment, self-employment opportunities and rehabilitation to those injured and maimed during the conflict.
The government has also said that it will complete the tasks related to compensation, rehabilitation and reparation for the families of the conflict survivors.
The government has also put forward a plan to release those unjustly imprisoned during the Terai-Madhes unrest in accordance with the agreement reached between the government and the agitators. --RSS
