“Democratic political parties never shy away from elections. Those who are against elections are either regressive or dogmatists and they will face a crisis of existence," Khanal said addressing a gathering of the party´s youth wing members at the party head office in Balkhu on Wednesday.[break]
Claiming that fresh election can give a solution to the ongoing deadlock and bring the country´s political course onto the right track, Khanal urged the party´s youths to focus all their activities and energy on turning the election results in favor of the party.
He said that forming an election government under the leadership of sitting chief justice was a compulsion as leaders from the major political parties, according to him, couldn´t agree on any political leader as a common prime ministerial candidate.
He argued that the CJ-led government has given a respite to the country as it “ended the 10-month long political, constitutional as well as economic crisis” and the “anti-people coalition" of UCPN (Maoist) and Madhes-based parties.
“We worked hard to find a common candidate from the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and other small political parties but our months-long talks didn´t yield any result,” he explained.
He was of the view that the CJ-led government has created grounds for elections and the newly-elected parliament will also address the concerns over separation of powers among the three state organs - legislature, executive and judiciary.
He argued the separation of powers was seriously jeopardized on May 27 last year when the Maoist-led government dissolved the Constituent Assembly, which also worked as parliament.
“Now we can bring the political course onto the right track only after electing a new parliament,” he said.
"Every booth, a group of youths"
Addressing the same function, Mahesh Basnet, chief of the party´s youth wing Youth Association Nepal, announced to concentrate all their strength on new elections.
He said the organization has coined the slogan “every booth, a group of youths” in view of the fresh elections and that his organization was ready to provide “any sort of training and materials” to youth groups during the election campaign.
“Now every meeting and gathering of the association will discuss plan and strategies to win the elections,” said Basnet.
Basnet said this time around his organization was well prepared to “give necessary protection to UML candidates and voters and to stop Maoist cadres from rigging the polls”.
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