Crisis in Nepal: Maoists to permit vote for new govt

Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) have agreed to stop blocking parliament proceedings so that lawmakers can choose a new government to ease the country's political crisis, the parliament speaker said Thursday. However, the maoists lawmakers said that although they agreed to lift their protests for Thursday, they would permanently end them only on condition that the chamber take up a motion censuring President Ram Baran Yadav.

The country's Maoist prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, sparked the latest political upheavel early this month when he resigned to protest Yadav's refusal to fire the country's army chief in a dispute over integrating former Maoist rebels into the military. The Maoist lawmakers who represent the Himalayan nation's ex-rebels had held up the selection of a new prime minister, but were now agreeing to allow the process to go forward, parliament Speaker Subash Nemwang said Thursday.
(Source:THT Online)

Our Perspective:
We have repeatedly continued to stress against the establishment of multiple power centres in the country. The people elected government should be allowed to rule the country. If we cannot trust an elected government over the disciplinary actions against one of the government employees, it is difficult to understand how we can respond to the process of transformation of our society.
Although we all may not agree, but, Maoists represent the symbol of change in the modern era of Nepalese politics, and not all people can accept and adapt to the change. Unfortunately, our honourable president belongs to that faction of the political spectrum, which has been identified as the symbol of status quo. The president has shown he is not able to act as a true leader of the country, and the resolution motion against the president is only necessary.

Crisis in Nepal: Vice-President blames Prez, PM for crisis

Vice President Paramandand Jha has accused the president and prime minister for the current on-going crisis in the country. VP Jha accused prime minister of ignoring the cabinet, in sacking CoAS, who was later reinstated by the president. He said both the president and prime minister committed the mistakes in the Katwal issue. Jha also accused the political parties of being involved in power games rather than concentrating on the constitution drafting process. He stressed on the need for parties to move ahead with consensus for the long-lasting peace rather than conflict. (Source: THT)

Our Perspective:
President should always be a ceremonial, when there is an elected prime minister ruling the country. He should not have interfered with the decision making process. But this will finally sort out the difference of power between the president and the governent. As always we would reiterate there should not be multiple power stations in a country.

But the actual problem lied somewhere else. Inability of defence minister Ram Bahadur Thapa to get full support of army chiefs, led to current problem. It was never going to be easy, but as a minister, it was his first task to get full support of the army chief, which he failed to do.