Walk And Chew Gum At The Same TimeIt is not one or the other. It is not arms management or the political issues. Both have to happen at once. The two could agree on a political roadmap which would be implemented as soon as the arms management starts.
The worst case scenario is to go back to war. But I don't think that is what we are looking at since both sides have already agreed on a constituent assembly.
But the current political paralysis is damage enough. The local populations are being subjected to extortions. The law and order situation has been deteriorating because of the political confusion.
The seven party Bahuns are dragging their feet on social justice issues.
Girija's lack of intellectual curiosity is also a major handicap the peace process is having to live with.
The Maoists are deep to the neck with their misdeeds at the local levels. The extortions are not taxation by a parallel state. They are looting money.
No To Royal Dictatorship, No To Maoist Dictatorship
Arguing With The Maoists
Need To Revive The 12 Point Agreement Spirit
The Maoists Have A Right To Peaceful Assembly, Peacefully Protest
Deciding Now On Monarchy And Army
All Members To The Constituent Assembly Must Be Directly Elected
Prachanda, Madhav, Devendra
100,000 Maoist Militia Must Disarm
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How To Avoid An October Revolution
Arms Management, Money Management
How To Conduct A Meeting
Reform Is Hard To Push Through
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An Elaborate Conversation With Homraj Acharya, Sanjaya Parajuli
After the Neelam event, there was a small coffee break with the likes of Shailesh Shrestha, Mridula Koirala and Anand Bist at a nearby Dunkin Donuts. Then Hom, and I headed over to Sanjaya's place nearby. We got there around nine and were up until past two in the morning, talking Nepali politics. Somewhere along the way, we had dinner. I got ready to leave around midnight, but got dragged back into the conversation.
It was a fruitful conversation. I wish I had my equipment with me. It would have been great to record much of it. Some very interesting thoughts came forward.
We first discussed the immediate, the impending peace talks. There were personal stories to tell.
Then there was a long conversation on Hindi. I see both of these as Pahadi Bahuns. But they claim they are both Madhesi. Their homes are in the Terai. I get this often. To me the term Teraiwasi is geographical. Anyone living in the Terai is a Teraiwasi. But a Bahun is a Bahun. The terms Pahadi and Madhesi are cultural. Madhesis who have been living in Kathmandu for decades have not ended up being Pahadi, although some of them have tried.
I argued Hindi is the link language between the Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Tharu and Urdu speakers in the Terai. Nepali was imposed by Mahendra. Down with Mahendra Path.
Towards the end there was this interesting proposal. All MPs get to speak in the parliament in their first language. What they speak gets translated into every other language spoken in the parliament. If this can be implemented, it is an interesting proposal.
Language Policy
There was also talk of a mixed system where you have direct elections, but you also have the proportional representation system.
In The News
PM, Indian envoy discuss peace process, Congress unification NepalNews
Probe commission grills two junior ministers, others
Govt. appoints Ghimire NAC chairman
IOM office opens in Kathmandu
US envoy to inspect Flood Relief and Conflict Mitigation program in far West
Govt. to publicize whereabouts of missing people after the Maoists do so: PM Koirala In a meeting with the families of the disappeared people by the state held at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar ......
NHRC tells Maoists to send details of disappearance
Army will not back King: Dr. Mahat
Police arrest mastermind behind 8 major robberies in the capital
Nepal’s Maoists Out-of-Sync with Rest of Nation - By Bhupal Lamichhaney the present state of confusion and mistrust. ..... We continue to see the actions of Hezbollah and Hammas in Lebanon and Palestine. It may not be fully justified to compare the Maoists of Nepal with them, but one can find similarities too. Hezbollah is a state within a state as the Maoists claim for them. ..... Troops sent to Nepal village to stop clashes NDTV.com, India
India provides grant to Nepal People's Daily Online, China
Peace process fails to take speed in Nepal People's Daily Online, China engaged in accusing each other for not abiding by the previous agreements. ..... Yubaraj Ghimire, editor of "Samaya" .. Ghimire said the people's movement could not be ruled out against the Seven Party Alliance and the guerrillas if they failed to reach into consensus. ADB grants 55.2 mln USD to Nepal for road project People's Daily Online, China this is the first time the bank has provided a grant to the country. ..... 490 km of road will be constructed over the period of six years.
Nepal wants share in Gandhi legacy, invites Indian ‘socialists ... Indian Express, India leaders of the Seven Party Alliance in Nepal have invited a delegation of Indian “socialists” — headed by Janata Dal(U) president Sharad Yadav ..... JD(U) secretary-general K.C. Tyagi, Bihar water resources minister Ramashray Prasad Singh, JNU professor Dr Anand Kumar and former student activist and general-secretary of the South Asian Forum for People’s Initiviatives Sudheendra Bhadhoria. ..... The two-day conference on September 16 and 17 is being hosted by the Mahendra Nidhi Memorial Foundation. .... even the Maoists might send a representative ..... Top socialist leaders Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia had escaped to Nepal after their Hazaribagh jailbreak in 1942 and were given shelter by Nepali Congress leaders. Similarly, B.P. Koirala and many of his colleagues found support and sympathy from various socialist leaders in India during their years fighting for democracy in Nepal. ...... on a recent visit to Kathmandu, K.C. Tyagi met both Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai and the two Maoist leaders may meet Yadav this time. ....
UN presses Nepal rebels on human rights abuses Reuters AlertNet, UK
Moriarty on 4-day Tour of Far West Nepal Himalayan Times, Nepal
Nepal & NAM Gorkhapatra, Nepal KP Sharma Oli, the otherday, left for Havana, the capital city of Cuba, to take part in the 14th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement to be held from September 13.
House to amend its proclamation Kantipur Publications after the amendment of the proclamation, the process of appointing ambassadors as well as officials to various constitutional bodies will begin.
MPs flay police intervention
Maoist extortion cripples travel trade the unexpectedly intensifying 'extortion' ..... ranging as high as ten million rupees. Adding to the woe, there are reports that different organizations allied to the ruling political parties are following suit. ...... Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO), HAN, PATA-Nepal Chapter, Nepal Mountaineering Association, Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA), and Board of Airlines Representatives in Nepal ...... “The activists of the Maoist affiliated organizations are staying at different hotels in groups of 10 to 15 persons, not paying a single penny,” said a Thamel hotelier. .....
ADB grants US$ 55 m to Nepal road construction to help expand and rehabilitate the feeder road system in Nepal. ..... roads to three district headquarters that are not currently connected, and upgrade existing connection roads to all weather condition in 17 of the country’s 75 districts ......
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मधेसीको प्रदर्शनमा लाठी प्रहार ५० जना घाइते भएका छन् । ..... बृहत् लोकतान्त्रिक मधेसी मोर्चाको आह्वानमा संविधान सभाअघि नागरिकता, जनसंख्याको आधारमा संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन क्षेत्र निर्धारण, राज्यको सम्पूर्ण संरचनामा मधेसीको सामानुपातिक सहभागिता लगायतका माग.... करिब तीन सयको जुलुसमाथि प्रहरीले बिनाकुनै चेतावनी लठ्ठी प्रहार गरेको थियो । ..... 'प्रहरीले एक्कासि बिनाकुनै चेतावनीको टाउको ताकेर नै सबैलाई प्रहार गरे,' जुलुसमा सहभागी पंकज जालानले भने । ...... शान्तिपूर्ण विरोध गरिरहेका मधेसीप्रति राज्यले अमानवीय व्यवहार गरिनु निन्दनीय रहेको सद्भावना -आनन्दीदेवी) का महासचिव राजेन्द्र महतोले बताए । ....... जनआन्दोलनबाट स्थापित संसद्, सरकार, सात राजनीतिक दल, माओवादी, मानव अधिकारवादी संघसंस्था र नागरिक समाजसमेतले मधेस र मधेसी समुदायप्रति जारी शोषण, दमन र उत्पीडनविरुद्घ आफूहरूलाई उभ्याउन नसकेको आरोप मोर्चाको छ । ..... नेपाल सद्भावना पार्टीका दुवै समूहले सोमबार प्रेस विज्ञप्ति जारी गरी शान्तिपूर्ण जुलुसमा गरिएको अन्धाधुन्ध लठ्ठी प्रहारको भत्र्सना गरेका छन् । यस घटनाले सरकारको मधेसीप्रतिको नीति स्पष्ट भएको जनाएको छ । ...... मोर्चाको माग पूरा गर्न आग्रह गर्दै दुवै पार्टीले शान्तिपूर्ण जुलुसमा सरकारी दमनले घाइते भएकालाई उचित क्षतिपूर्ति दिन सरकारलाई भनेको छ ।
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