At the CWC meeting held at the party´s headquarters in Sanepa on Wednesday, CWC members said the agreement fails to specifically address the 10-point demand raised by the party. Most of them termed the agreement “vague”. [break]
“Our central working committee meeting had decided to extend the CA term only if the Maoists met our 10-point demands. The five-point deal has failed to represent our party´s official decision.
He said a majority of CWC members taking part in the deliberation today have registered their dissatisfaction at the manner in which deal was reached,” said CWC member Arjun Narasingh KC.
CWC members, including Khum Bahadur Khadka, Man Bahadur Bishwakarma, Ram Kumar Chaudhary, Rajan Prasad Panta and Ram Chandra Tiwari, strongly criticized the deal alleging the party´s negotiators of breaching the institutional decision of the party for extension of the CA term. Likewise, CWC members Bimalendra Nidhi, Dr Ram Sharan Mahat, Dhan Raj Gurung and Arjun Joshi lauded the deal, saying that people-elected body had to be saved at any cost.
While registering their dissatisfaction at the specifics of the deal, other CWC members taking part in Wednesday´s deliberation had suggested to the party leadership to take a lead role in implementing the peace process and drafting the new constitution. “We reviewed the five-point deal at the meeting. Most of the CWC members have suggested that the party should take initiatives to conclude the peace process within the extended term of the CA,” said CWC member Pampha Bhusal.
According to the party´s chief secretary Basanta Kumar Gautam, altogether 21 CWC members took part in the deliberation on Wednesday. Most CWC members taking part in the meeting suggested to the party to develop a calendar of events and hold meetings with various parties for conclusion of peace process and constitution writing within the extended term of the CA.
At the outset of the meeting, party President Sushil Koirala had briefed CWC members on the five-point deal reached among three major parties. Koirala told the CWC members that they failed to make the Maoists to give in to NC´s demands as the NC leaders in the course of negotiations could not take a firm stand.
Likewise, Dr Mahat had apprised the CWC meeting as to what transpired in the course of negotiations and how they ended up inking the five-point deal. He said that they agreed to ink the deal after the Maoist leadership assured that they would complete the fundamental tasks related to peace process within three months.
He also said that they chose to support CA term extension as failure to do so would have earned NC the disrepute of dissolving the people-elected body.
The CWC meeting will continue on Thursday as more CWC members are yet to put forth their views on the five-point deal. The CWC meeting is set to chart out future course of the party in view of the changed political context.
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