Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Nepal’s political paper ‘revised’
BY GHANASHYAM OJHA
KATHMANDU, July 10 - CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal's political paper was not accepted by a majority of party leaders during the party's 15th Central Committee meeting and sent for revision.
Following strong objection from leaders, General Secretary Nepal's political paper - perhaps for the first time - was sent for major correction after the meeting concluded Sunday.
A senior UML leader said, "General Secretary's perspective of Maoists was wrong and majority of leaders objected."
General Secretary Nepal, while placing the current political forces into four categories, had dubbed the CPN-Maoist an ultra-leftist force.
But the meeting concluded that the Maoists were a democratic republican force. Strangely, however, the redrafted political paper has dubbed Maoist "activities" as ultra-leftist.
The meeting has directed party leaders -Ishwar Pokharel, Bhim Rawal and Yuvraj Gyawali - to redraft the paper.
"The leaders will incorporate all the suggestions raised by party leaders during the meeting and present it at the party Standing Committee (politburo)," the leader said.
In his political paper, Nepal had termed the royalist force as feudal, Nepali Congress as bourgeois, Maoist as ultra-leftist and the UML as a democratic revolutionary force.
The redrafted paper has conceived only two forces -feudal force represented by the royalists, and democratic republican force represented by all eight ruling political parties.
The meeting decided to hold its 8th General Convention after the Constituent Assembly (CA) poll which the party views as top priority.
The meeting also decided to lead all republican forces. "The meeting decided to persuade the Nepali Congress to come to the republican fold," the leader said.
He said the meeting stressed on encouraging the republican force within the NC for this purpose.
The meeting formed a 19-member committee headed by party Standing Committee member Jhala Nath Khanal to prepare a draft of the manifesto for the CA poll. Similarly, the meeting formed a separate committee under the chairmanship of General Secretary Nepal to prepare the party's strategies for the CA poll.
The Nepal-headed committee - CA Poll Central Mobilization Committee - includes all party Standing Committee members, chiefs of the party zonal committees and heads of the party's sister organizations. The committee will formulate policies and strategies so as to secure majority in the CA poll.
The UML central committee meeting had started on June 24.
BY GHANASHYAM OJHA
KATHMANDU, July 10 - CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal's political paper was not accepted by a majority of party leaders during the party's 15th Central Committee meeting and sent for revision.
Following strong objection from leaders, General Secretary Nepal's political paper - perhaps for the first time - was sent for major correction after the meeting concluded Sunday.
A senior UML leader said, "General Secretary's perspective of Maoists was wrong and majority of leaders objected."
General Secretary Nepal, while placing the current political forces into four categories, had dubbed the CPN-Maoist an ultra-leftist force.
But the meeting concluded that the Maoists were a democratic republican force. Strangely, however, the redrafted political paper has dubbed Maoist "activities" as ultra-leftist.
The meeting has directed party leaders -Ishwar Pokharel, Bhim Rawal and Yuvraj Gyawali - to redraft the paper.
"The leaders will incorporate all the suggestions raised by party leaders during the meeting and present it at the party Standing Committee (politburo)," the leader said.
In his political paper, Nepal had termed the royalist force as feudal, Nepali Congress as bourgeois, Maoist as ultra-leftist and the UML as a democratic revolutionary force.
The redrafted paper has conceived only two forces -feudal force represented by the royalists, and democratic republican force represented by all eight ruling political parties.
The meeting decided to hold its 8th General Convention after the Constituent Assembly (CA) poll which the party views as top priority.
The meeting also decided to lead all republican forces. "The meeting decided to persuade the Nepali Congress to come to the republican fold," the leader said.
He said the meeting stressed on encouraging the republican force within the NC for this purpose.
The meeting formed a 19-member committee headed by party Standing Committee member Jhala Nath Khanal to prepare a draft of the manifesto for the CA poll. Similarly, the meeting formed a separate committee under the chairmanship of General Secretary Nepal to prepare the party's strategies for the CA poll.
The Nepal-headed committee - CA Poll Central Mobilization Committee - includes all party Standing Committee members, chiefs of the party zonal committees and heads of the party's sister organizations. The committee will formulate policies and strategies so as to secure majority in the CA poll.
The UML central committee meeting had started on June 24.
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