But the Maoist representatives and a knowledgeable source told myrepublica.com that there was no meeting at all on Sunday.
“We had on Saturday told the chief secretary to call a meeting on Tuesday as we would be busy on Sunday due to the central committee meeting of our party,” said Janardan Sharma, a Maoist representative in the committee. “There was no meeting of the committee on Sunday.”
A statement issued by prime minister´s aide Bishnu Rijal blames Maoists for deferral of special committee meeting that sources said was never scheduled for Sunday.
According to Sharma and the source at the committee, the prime minister had on Saturday asked the chief secretary, who is the member secretary of the committee, to call a meeting on Sunday. But the Maoist representatives told the chief secretary that they would be busy in the ongoing central committee of the party and suggested the chief secretary to call the meeting on Tuesday. The chief secretary had then apprised the prime minister of the Maoist request, which the latter immediately accepted.
“I had called the meeting of the Special Committee for today [Sunday] but they [the Maoist representatives] did not come,” Rijal quoted the prime minister as telling President Dr Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday about the Maoist non-cooperation to the government on the peace process. The prime minister called on Yadav Sunday evening to brief him on his recent China visit.
“It is baseless to say that the meeting was called for Sunday,” Sharma said.
The meeting of the Special Committee has been put off time and again though it was supposed to be held every Sunday after the Maoist representatives did not turn up in the scheduled meetings on one or another pretext.
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