A politburo meeting of the party held on Sunday evening at the party office in Buddha Nagar took this decision, arguing that the proposal is aimed not at resolving the political deadlock. The party also said that the HLPC’s offer for a roundtable assembly is “meaningless”.[break]
“The proposal is not aimed at finding a long-term solution to the problem and promulgating the new constitution. It appears that the proposal is only aimed at making us participate in the election to fulfill the interests of foreign forces,” said a Maoist politburo member on condition of anonymity. “Our party will not sit for talks without dissolution of the Khil Raj Regmi-led government and annulment of the entire election process.”
The meeting also maintained that a government led by a political leader should announce fresh election date.
The politburo meeting on Sunday was held to unveil concrete struggle programs to boycott the election as decided earlier by the party’s CC meeting held in Pokhara. The CC meeting that concluded on Tuesday last week had decided to boycott the election while keeping doors open for talks.
The major parties represented in the HLPC decided on Saturday to stand ready for a roundtable conference, but ruled out changing the government. “The government led by a political party should announce fresh date for election after scrapping the 25-point ordinance, which led to the formation of the Regmi-led government,” added another politburo member.
Expressing disagreement with the announcement of fresh date for CA election by then Baburam Bhattarai-led government, the CPN-Maoist had floated the proposal for holding a roundtable assembly. But the UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madhes-based parties ignored the proposal.
“The HLPC proposal is only aimed at making us participate in the election under the Regmi-led government. This is not acceptable to us,” said the politburo member.
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