NC said that an agreement between the two parties to create a separate force goes against the spirit of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA). The party also maintained that integration of Maoists combatants should be strictly on individual basis and all combatants aspiring for integration should meet the standard norms of the security agency concerned.[break]
NC parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Paudel said NC will never accept such an agreement between the two communist parties. “The so-called agreement goes against the Comprehensive Peace Accord. Nowhere does the CPA mentioned anything about creating a fifth security agency,” he said.
NC argued that such an agreement with the Maoists also goes against the stance the CPN-UML itself has long been taking over the integration of Maoist combatants. “There can´t be a separate force. Integration of Maoist combatants should be on individual basis and all those opting for integration should meet the standard norms of the security agencies concerned,” said another NC leader Bimalendra Nidhi .
“Integration means neither unification nor creation of a new force,” Nidhi further said. “The CPA does not provide any ground for creating such a force.”
The two communist parties, in their seven-point accord reached just before the election of Jhalanath Khanal as prime minister on Thursday, agreed to lead the new government on rotational basis and maintain longterm partnership between the two parties. Among other things, the two parties also agreed to go forward along with all leftist, patriotic and democratic forces.
NC alleged that the UML has tried to create a leftist polarization by breaking the existing left-democratic alliance. “The UML will have to face the consequences of this. This polarization will not deliver peace and a new constitution to the country,” warned Paudel.
NC said the agreement between the Maoists and UML to head the future government on rotational basis and maintain long-term partnership does not leave any ground for the politics of consensus. “This is not desirable especially at this critical juncture in history. It will help deliver neither peace nor a new constitution to the country,” Nidhi further said.
All leftist parties except Nepal Workers Peasant Party had voted in favor of Khanal in the prime ministerial election Thursday. Most rightist parties except a few splinter Madhes-based parties decided to stay in opposition.
NC CWC meeting Sunday
Nepali Congress (NC) has called its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting for Sunday to discuss the political situation in the aftermath of Jhalanath Khanal´s election as the new prime minister.
Party leaders said the CWC meeting to be held in the afternoon at party headquarters, Sanepa will analyze the latest political situation in the country and forge necessary strategies on how to push the party´s agenda of concluding the peace process and promulgating a democratic constitution. “The meeting will also officially decide to stay in the opposition,” said a CWC member.
NC President Sushil Koirala has already announced that the party would stay in the opposition and support the government on the basis of its merits and demerits.
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