Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal has started expressing dissatisfaction over the recent meetings of President Ram Baran Yadav with various political leaders without informing him.
Kantipur daily reported Sunday quoting anonymous sources at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that PM Khanal is not happy that the President has intensified meetings with political leaders and given suggestions on key issues of the peace process, without consulting him.
Khanal claims such meetings are not constitutional and has started consulting legal experts close to his party, according to a PMO source. He is preparing to ask the President about the meetings in his next meeting, the source said.
President Ram Baran Yadav has intensified political consultations in the recent days. He has held separate meetings with chairmen of almost all political parties in the Constituent Assembly (CA) in the last three days – Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
On Thursday, he met Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) chair Pashupati Shumsher JBR, Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party chair Narayanman Bijuckchhe, CPN (ML) chair CP Mainali and CPN (United) chair Chandra Dev Joshi.
On Friday, he met UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Loktantrik chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar, Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) chairman Surya Bahadur Thapa, Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party chairman Mahantha Thakur and Rastriya Janamorcha chairman Chitra Bahadur KC.
Likewise, on Saturday, he met Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) chairman Upendra Yadav, TMLP-Nepal chairman Mahendra Yadav, Socialist Democratic Peoples Party chairman Prem Bahadur Singh, Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party chairman Keshav Mainali and Dalit Janjati Party chairman Bishwendra Paswan.
Sources at the President’s office say, the president has asking the same questions and giving same suggestions to the leaders of all parties. He has been asking the reasons for the delay in the peace process and constitution drafting process.
President Yadav has suggested the leaders to form a commission for demarcation of the provinces, complete the army integration and rehabilitation as soon as possible and promulgate the new constitution on the basis of political consensus and not a two-thirds majority. nepalnews.com
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