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VOL. 28, NO. 16, Dec 26, 2008 (Poush 11 2065 B.S.)
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PM PRACHANDA
Red Herring
Prime Minister Prachanda now points at the invincibility of his government because of 'no other alternative'
By A CORRESPONDENT
A week after he went around complaining that he was not being allowed to operate the government smoothly and that he sometimes thought of climbing down the power and rebel again, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has done a turnaround.
Now he is singing that the government he leads is invincible at least because, according to him, there is no alternative.
He has also turned the bogey of peace process and threatened that any move to dislodge his government would automatically disrupt the peace process.
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He has said that the current government cannot be pulled down by anyone. "There is no situation of pulling this government down and forming another," PM Prachanda told a group of journalists, Thursday, in Baluwatar.
In an interaction with select group of journalists, PM Dahal said, "If this government is pulled down, there will be huge implications on the country." When asked to elaborate, he said, "The peace process will be blocked and constitution cannot be written."
He said that given the complicated nature of transition, the politics in the country was becoming multidimensional. "In the politics of Nepal, it is not only the domestic political parties that are the key actors. There are also foreigners. From the face of it, it looks like Nepali political parties are bickering but underneath the whole world will be squabbling," he said. "Just recently Surya Bahadur Thapaji (president of Rastriya Janashakti Party) floated the idea of democratic alliance. Did this idea come from his mind alone or from elsewhere?" he questioned.
He said that his party had come forth with the slogan to unite republicans and nationalists because there were still threats from 'monarchists' and 'foreigners.'
In what turned out to be a frank tete-a-tete, he also added that there were conspiracies afoot to revive monarchy. PM Dahal said that Indian ambassador Rakesh Sood recently met with former King Gyanendra.
"When I asked him (Sood), he said he met with the former King. He told me that the former King inquired about his plan to travel to India to attend wedding of a relative," PM Dahal said.
"The former King is also said to have told him that all his former followers have now become Maoists," he added. PM Dahal also told journalists that he was in a mood to bring out a white paper to highlight the problems facing the country and the government to enlighten the public.
He said in his four months in office, one and a half month was spent on foreign travel while one month was spent on managing internal dispute within Maoist party.
He also raised alarms that any problem on the Maoist party would have led to serious implications in the country.
The party had buried the problems after Prachanda incorporated parts of political document forwarded by his party colleague Mohan Baidya Kiran to come out with joint slogan of People's Federal Democratic National Republic of Nepal.
In a separate program, PM Prachanda also came down hard against what he called as some quarters intent at dismissing all the achievements made by his government.
"To say that this government has done nothing at all, will be like portraying a wrong picture which will lead us to wrong conclusion," he said addressing the sixth annual general meeting of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).
