"I have convinced many people. I will also convince Kishunji myself."
Prime Minister and president of Nepali Congress, Girija Prasad Koirala, promising party workers that he will convince Krishna Prasad Bhattarai to return back to the party fold.
"Congress has set on a long but meaningless exercise to adopt federal democratic republic line."
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, the only surviving founding leader of Nepali Congress, in a letter stating his intention to sever all ties with Congress since its current policy totally disregarded the policy propounded by evergreen leaders BP Koirala and Ganesh Man Singh.
"We can no longer change the election schedule any further."
Bhoj Raj Pokharel, chief election commissioner, at a press meet held after the EC put off nomination filing date by five days under government request.
"The Prime Minister Koirala is hobnobbing with royalist elements to corner us. The parties even proposed to put off the election till mid-April next year at the meetings."
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Maoist spokesperson, addressing a mass gathering in Kathmandu.
"The deadlock continues as Maoists and Nepali Congress have failed to demonstrate flexibility."
Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of UML.
"The group had originally planned to carry out blasts at Singhdurbar, Gongabu bus park, and Nepal Bangladesh Bank. It later changed its plans due to the security that was in place at these places."
Keshav Prasad Baral, Additional Inspector General of Police, at a press meet held to make public the four persons arrested on charge of involvement in September 2 bomb blasts.
"The Maoist fraternal organization has started the work to collapse the publications economically and attack the press freedom in the name of fulfilling its demands."
Kailash Sirohiya, Managing Director of Kantipur Publications, in a press statement.
"We haven't seen such a serious attack on press freedom even during the direct censorship of media after the king's coup in February 2005."
The Editor's Alliance, in a statement issued to deplore pro-Maoist workers' obstruction in Kantipur Publication. The Alliance includes senior editors of newspapers and television media.
Transition
RESIGNED: Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, the only surviving founding member of Nepali Congress (NC), from all positions in the party.
MADE PUBLIC: Police have made public four persons it arrested on charges of involvement in September 2 multiple blasts in the city, which killed three. Those made public by the police include Ram Lakhan Thakur from Bara district and three others – Jagat Narayan Thakur, Upendra Shah and Sanjiv Shah from Rautahat district.
REGISTERED: A motion demanding special session of the interim parliament, by the MPs of the Maoists and two other left parties - CPN (Ekikrit) and CPN (United Leftist Front) - at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on September 28.
WON: Mahendra Police Club, the first runner up title at the AFC President's Cup in Lahore on September 30 after losing 2-1 against Dordoi Dyanamo of Kyrgyzstan in the final.
RANKED: Nepal ranks 131st in the list of least corrupt nations in the world, with a score of
2.5 on the 0-10 scale. The list was published by Transparency International. The TI report lists Denmark, Finland and New Zealand as the cleanest nations with 9.4 points each. African country Somalia tops the list of corrupt nations at 1.4 points.
PUT OFF: The date for filing of closed-list of candidates for proportional representation based election, by five days (till October 5), by the Election Commission. The date for filing candidacy for direct election has been rescheduled for October 8.
