Nepal PM quits amid pressure from Maoists

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KATHMANDU: After 13 uneasy months in the saddle, Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal finally announced his resignation on Wednesday, knuckling under combined mounting pressure from the parties, including his own, the opposition Maoists and the spectre of another humbling in parliament next week.

"I am resigning from today in the hope that it will pave the way for a political resolution and consensus that will complete the peace process and the new constitution," the veteran communist leader said in a 30-minute long televised address to the nation.

The coalition government of Nepal is the second one since 2008, when the country became a republic. It succeeded the first Maoist government that lasted in power for only nine months. Like Maoist prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who resigned in May 2009 blaming Nepal's communist party and its allies for the debacle, Nepal too devoted his address to attacking the former guerrillas, holding their "politics of restriction" and "continuous noncooperation" responsible for the failures of his government.

Nepal blamed the Maoists' five-month siege on parliament for the failure to promulgate a new constitution last May. He also blamed them for the state's inability to discharge the Maoist army within six months of signing a peace pact in 2006. The former rebels, Nepal said, had not kept their commitment of dismantling their paramilitary youth organisation and returning the public property they took under control while fighting the 10-year "People's War" from 1996. Nepal said they were still carrying on with their attacks on other parties and extortion.

The prime minister said his government still enjoyed majority support in the 601-member parliament and had taken several successful initiatives, like improving the security situation, doubling foreign aid and holding the world's highest cabinet meeting in the lap of Mt Everest to underscore the perils of global warming and climate change.

He also counted as his achievement the averting of a constitutional crisis last month when the constitution, parliament and his own government faced dissolution due to the failure to ready the new constitution. However, that was also the day when his government became doomed. The Maoists, who helped the government survive the crisis on May 28 by extending the constitutional deadline by a year, felt betrayed when Nepal refused to step down within 72 hours, as the former insurgents had expected he would.

Consequently, when the government tried to start the budget session of parliament, Nepal faced the prospect of the Maoists calling another blockade and derailing the budget, which would have triggered a financial crisis. Now the resignation at least paves the way for the budget session from July 5 if not a new consensus government.

A new all-party government could see further fireworks. Prachanda's ambition to be the premier again may come a cropper after growing opposition in his own party. Besides, now the second largest party after the Maoists, the Nepali Congress, is keen to take Nepal's place and three of its leaders are jockeying for the post.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Nepal-PM-quits-amid-pressure-from-Maoists/articleshow/6111321.cms
 

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*** C'garh CM reviews failed anti-Naxal strategy ***

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A day after 26 CRPF personnel were killed in a Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district, Chief Minister Raman Singh today called an emergency meeting to discuss anti-Naxal strategies.



These have not really succeeded in stemming the violence and worse, security men are continuing to die in large numbers.



The meeting, apart from reviewing yesterday's deadly attack, discussed strategies to modernise police forces and equip them with better tools to fight the outlaws, officials said.



The meeting, which lasted for 90 minutes, was attended by Union Home Ministry and senior state officials including State Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar, Chief Secretary P J Ummain, State DGP Vishwaranjan, CRPF chief Vikram Shrivastav and
senior Union Home Ministry official B M Nair.



Additional Director General of Police Ramnivas said Chhattisgarh police and paramilitary forces were jointly tackling the Naxal menace in the State.

He said that around 15 Naxalites were possibly killed when security personnel retaliated yesterday during the attack, as blood marks and signs of bodies being dragged were seen on the massacre site.



A large number of heavily-armed Maoists, perched on a hilltop, had opened fire with automatic weapons on a 63-member security contingent which was returning on foot from road opening duty yesterday killing 26 CRPF personnel and injuring eight others.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cgarh-cm-reviews-failed-antinaxal-strategy/640530/
 
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