Nepali parliament obstructed by UCPN-M
www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-22 05:47:08   Print

    KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The Legislature-Parliament meeting was deferred on Sunday without entering into the scheduled agenda because of the obstruction by the Constituent Assembly (CA)members from the single largest party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M).

    At the beginning of the meeting started two hours later than scheduled, Hisila Yami, the senior UCPN-M leader and the former minister for tourism and civil aviation, asked, "Isn't the parliament built from the People's Movement and the people's war supreme?"

    "Why is the work done by the elected Prime Minister was revoked by the president?" the Nepali national news agency RSS quoted Hisila Yami as saying.

    The UCPN-M chairman Prachanda was elected the prime minister in August, 2008 after his party won the CA election in April.

    Yami said the government of the "losers" has been trying to revive the monarchy by demolishing the baby republic, according to the RSS.

    "Yami said the parliament is the supreme body of the people and the resolution motion on civil supremacy should be discussed in the parliament, and added that it was mockery of the democracy not to bring the motion to discussion," according to the RSS.

    She said the proceedings of the parliament will not be allowed to move ahead until the motion on the move of the president on the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal is brought to discussion.

    Then all the UCPN-M CA members walked out of the parliament on Sunday.

    The CA chairman was to read out a letter from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. The next meeting of the parliament will be held on Tuesday.

    Also on Sunday, the UCPN-M staged a two-hour sit-in in front of the district offices across the country, to protest the Thursday decision of the Council of Ministers, revoking the decision of the erstwhile UCPN-M-Led government to sack Chief of the CoAS Katawal.

    The then government led by the UCPN-M had decided to remove Katawal on May 3, while President Ram Baran Yadav reinstated Katawal on the same day, which led to the resignation of the UCPN-M chairman Prachanda from the post of the prime minister on May 4.

    Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, a senior leader of the third largest CA party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) was sworn in on May 25. 

Editor: Mu Xuequan
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