UML Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal, at a press meet organized at the party´s head office in Balkhu on Thursday, urged Maoist leaders to be flexible and call off the general strike as it had made life difficult for the common people. [break]
"Our repeated efforts to find solution through dialogues have yielded no result due to Maoists rigid stance to topple the government through pressure from the streets and its precondition to form new government under its own leadership,” Khanal said in his statement.
According to Khanal, the parties have proposed that the Maoist combatants be brought under state control within a certain timeframe, detach the fighters from the former rebel party, return the land and properties seized during the insurgency to the rightful owners, disband the Maoist youth wing´s paramilitary structure and form commissions on disappeared people and on state restructuring.
“But instead of creating a trustworthy environment to implement the aforementioned issues, the Maoists are bent on changing the government through pressure from streets,” Khanal said.
Khanal urged the Maoists to not intensify the protests as that may lead to anarchy. He has said the impending conflict will be more disastrous than the previous ones. "The anarchy will lead the country toward constitutional void and only the extremist elements will benefit from such a situation," he said.
He said the UML has proposed a number of solutions to resolve the protracted political crisis. "The package prescribed by us is under discussion among the parties. Once it is final, we will make it public," Khanal said.
No policy to retaliate
On the latest reports about clashes between UML youth wings and Maoist protestors, Khanal said the UML discourages taking out retaliatory rallies. “UML is clearly against taking retaliatory action," he said.
National Human Rights Commission in its report on Wednesday said a UML youth had fired at Maoist protestors in Bhaktapur Wednesday.
Two-party meet
On Thursday morning, top leaders of the two parties held bilateral talks at Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal´s residence in Nayabazaar. They, however, failed to come up with a conclusion, leaders said.
"As this is a meeting between the two parties, we haven´t come up with any conclusion. We will again talk to the Nepali Congress (NC) leaders and only a trilateral meeting among the UCPN (Maoist), NC and CPN-UML will be decisive," UML standing committee member Bharat Mohan Adhikari told reporters.
Chairman Dahal, Vice-Chairman Mohan Baidya and leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara from UCPN (Maoist) and Chairman Khanal, General Secretary Ishwar Pokharel and Adhikari from UML attended the meeting.
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