Who am I to dissolve questionnaire committee?- PM Koirala

KATHMANDU, FEB 03.  Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has said that the Constitution drafting process will not stop at any cost.

Accepting a memorandum presented by the Reporters’ Club Nepal to exert pressure for the promulgation of the constitution on Tuesday, PM Koirala said that he does not have the power to halt the constitution drafting process. He said that the constitution drafting process will not stop to threats, brags, and blackmails from the UCPN (Maoist).

“The obstruction caused in the constitution drafting process has been criticised and rejected ubiquitously. They [oppositions] don’t want to forge consensus and try to blackmail us when we ask them for an agreement” said Koirala at the program presided by the Reporters’ CLub Nepal’s President Rishi Dhamala.

“As a prime minister, I have raised myself above party politics and even gatecrashed Prachanda’s party meeting for talks. But he put a pre-condition to dissolve the Questionnaire Committee. Who am I to dissolve a committee formed by the CA? I replied him I don’t have the powers to dissolve it,” Koirala said.

Koirala clarified that no meetings will be held with any pre-conditions and the constitution will be promulgated even through process. “I will not backtrack from consensus politics. But, I will not hold meetings with any conditions,” said the PM on chances of dialogues.

He claimed that the UCPN (Maoist) will not get public support if they quit CA and decide to go for protest. “People want development and political stability. They will not support Maoists agenda,” he said.

Saying that seven long years were wasted on the names of consensus, Koirala said that the country cannot be held hostage to politics of indecision for any further time. He urged the Maoists to be responsible towards peace and stability, which, he claimed, would open doors for foreign investment in the country.