According to sources, the prime minister shared the document in the form of "non-paper" with Special Committee members Ram Sharan Mahat, Minendra Rijal, Ishwar Pokharel and Bhim Rawal. The prime minister gave the document to Mahat and Rijal on Saturday while he gave it to Rawal and Pokharel on Sunday.[break]
Bhattarai had called the Special Committee members to his residence at Baluwatar and given them the document prepared by NA. The prime minister, however, could not share the document with Special Committee members JP Gupta and Jitendra Dev on Monday as he was out of Kathmandu. Army chief Chhatraman Singh Gurung had given the document to the prime minister on February 12, as directed by the government following a Special Committee decision.
Rawal confirmed that the prime minister gave the document in the form of "non-paper" to him and Pokharel on Sunday. "I do not want to share the details of the non-paper," said Rawal.
A member of the Special Committee told Republica that they are studying the non-paper and that he is not in a position to comment whether the non-paper contains the same integration details reported in media in recent days.
Pokharel said they are eagerly waiting for a meeting of the Special Committee to hear formally from the prime minister, in his capacity as the coordinator of the Special Committee, about his direction to NA and the army´s proposal on the integration of Maoist combatants.
Meanwhile, Maoist representative on the Special Committee Barshaman Pun has defended the army´s proposal, saying the national army prepared the proposal as directed by the government.
"The army´s proposal is within the ambit of the seven-point agreement [signed on November 1, 2011]," said Pun at an interaction organized by Reporters´ Club, asking the NC and the CPN-UML not to drag the proposal into controversy.
Pun said the prime minister has informally shared the army´s proposal with top leaders of the major political parties and members of the Special Committee.
At the same function, Mahat accused the UCPN (Maoist) of trying to play with the army by holding discussion on the proposal within the party before it was shared in the Special Committee.
Similarly, Rawal also accused the prime minister of bringing out the proposal without holding discussion with other parties, saying the proposal prepared without much homework would not be acceptable to his party.
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