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The Himalayan Times 19 August 2011 Once the Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal decided to resign soon after he realized that there would be no solid proposal with regard to peace process coming from the Maoists, the people might have already guessed that there would be another political tug of war between the NC and Maoists for leading the next government. In fact, UML remained, most of the post CA election time, to be opportunistic doing very little for the peace process and drafting of new statute. It seems now that it has lost its stake over the PM’s chair. It is yet to see how it will play its political card between NC and Maoist’s claim over the PM’s chair. It is hoped that this time UML sensibly uses its productive role. It was obvious that NC, sooner or later, would propose Sher Bahadur Deuba and Maoist’s candidate would be Dr. Babauram Bhattarai as reported in “NC to field Deuba as consensus prime minister” and “Maoists reinforce Bhattarai’s candidacy” (THT, August 17, Page 1). W...

The Kathmandu Post 19 August 2011 It was obvious to see, as soon as PM Jhalanath Khanal resigned, that the NC and Maoists would start claiming their rights to occupy the highest executive post (“Us first, then you, Dahal tells Deuba” August 12, Page 1) . The people might have already guessed that there would be another political tug of war between the NC and Maoists for leading the next government. It is yet to see as to how UML will play its political card in between NC and Maoist’s claim over the PM’s chair. It is hoped that this time UML will be sensibly. Why didn’t the NC and Maoists first sit together and forge consensus over one candidate as PM rather than filing separate candidates? The real litmus test for the Big Three is ahead considering the shaky political situation in their hands. August 31 is not too far away. Time has come for them to act sensibly. Rai Biren Bangdel Maharjgunj, Kathmandu

The Himalayan Times 11 August 2011 Considering the ongoing snail-paced political progress during the last two months of CA’s three months extended period, there does seem much hope of seeing peace process and drafting of new constitution completed by 31 August 2011 . The Big Three spent the last two months merely on power games and interpreting their five-point deal in their own ways. Now, the NC is continuously obstructing the house for the last one week asking the PM Khanal to follow the five-point deal and resign accordingly by 13 August. His statement that was supposed to be read out by Deputy PM Bharat M. Adhikari yesterday afternoon in the parliament could not be done so due to last hour changes in the draft as reported “Maoists foil PM’s House address bid” (THT, August 9, Page 1) The terms “national” or “consensus” government and “new Nepal ” have been the political jargons of our political leaders. How come is it possible to form the national or consensus government of these 3...

The Kathmandu Post 12 August 2011 The people are beginning to get nervous as the major political parties’ continue to play games even as deadline for the CA is fast approaching (“Great expectations” August 11, Page 6). It is clear now that all the parties have broken their promises to break away from the kind of politics that plagued us in the 1990s. They have completely engrossed themselves in power politics while pushing the nation towards uncertainty. As mentioned in the Editorial, there is no other alternative than to form a unity government through consensus among the Big Three. This is seemingly the only way to emancipate the nation from a looming political, social and economic crisis. Rai Biren Bangdel Maharajgunj, Kathmandu http://www.dataentryjobs.us/33120.html

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The Himalayan Times 29 July 2011 Promises are not enough An English daily had recently reported that the annual loss of NEA exceeds Rs. 7 billion which could tremendously offset its enormous amount of deficit. Had the NEA been able to save this loss which also could drastically reduce the load shedding hours. The current total power generation of Nepal comes to around 700 megawatts of which Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is bearing around 29 % power loss due to technical loss, leakages and theft. The Energy Minister Gokarna Bista had also recently made promised to fight back to reduce this loss down to 20 % within the next six months. It is yet to be seen whether his good promises would be fulfilled. Also, the government had launched Hydropower Investment and Development Company (HIDC) for power project development to address and improve the current power crisis in the country “New company to boost hydel projects” (THT, July 27, Page 2). Nepal is known to be the second largest ...

The Himalayan Times 15 July 2011 Only blame game rife All the major political parties of new Nepal have been widely exposed because of their inter and intra-party factional politics thus severely   hampering the peace process and drafting of new constitution that are to be completed by the end of the extended three months time in accordance with five-point deal. Maoist senior leaders seem pretty busy in blaming and undermining each other in the name of people’s war as reported in “Baidya-Bhattarai camp busy flexing muscles” (THT, July 13, Page 1). Likewise, the Nepali Congress (NC) senior leaders’ bid to lead the next government is heating up as reported in “Congress statue allows PP leader change: Singh” (THT, July 13, Page 5). Also, the UML’s internal feud has heated up for quite some time. Looking closely at their irresponsible and insensible acts, it does not seem that they would be able to complete the people’s mandated tasks by the dead-line. The current fragile politica...

The Kathmandu Post 15 July 2011 FACTIONAL FEUD THE current volatile political situation demands a collaborative effort among all the political parties, especially so called Big Three and UMF parties (“Deuba faction expects Sushil to keep his word” July 13, Page 1) and (“Ground beneath Dahal shifting” July 13, Page) . There is no alternative to forging a consensus and moving forward to finish prime jobs mandated by the people. But politicians are caught up in factional feuds. If the parties do not abandon their egoistic politics Nepal could end up with a disastrous crisis. Rai Biren Bangdel Maharajgunj, Kathmandu http://www.dataentryjobs.us/33120.html http://www.dataentryjobs.us/33120-3-3-3.html http://www.dataentryjobs.us/33120-3-3-6.html%20target=%22_blank%22%3EPART