Maoist chief miffed by PM Koirala, says his activism undermines Prez call
Seemingly outshined in the race for government formation, CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ Thursday expressed severe reservations to the recent round of political meetings held by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala for the formation of "a national unity government".
The Maoist strongman, who is widely believed to be the prime-minister in the waiting, said that the intensified political parleys by PM Koirala has created problem in reaching an agreement with other political parties, adding that it has totally disregarded the Presidents’ call to his party to take the initiative to form the new government.
Emerging from a meeting with UML general secretary Jhala Nath Khanal at the latter's residence, Dahal told media persons that PM Koirala is also doing a wrong thing from the constitutional point of view with his political activism when the president has already set a time frame for the Maoists to form the government which end in two days.
He said that at a time when the Maoists are holding meetings with other political parties, PM Koirala is clearly not helping by engaging in parallel political meetings.
"In fact he is creating hindrance for us," Dahal said, adding that although there has been agreement between the big four parties to form a "national unity government", his party has given continuity to such political meetings to realize it.
Senior Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai and Ram Bahadur Thapa accompanied Dahal in the meeting with Khanal just few hours after the latter met Nepali Congress leader and staunch Maoist critic Ram Chandra Poudel. nepalnews.com ag Aug 07 08
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