KATHMANDU, Oct 12: Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has said single-party communism will pose challenge to democracy, so time has come for all to unite against it.

During a gathering of the people of the Public Relations Committee affiliated to Nepali Congress, who have gathered in the capital city Thursday, PM Deuba said only multi-party democracy could institutionalize people’s rights. “All need to be aware of the authoritarianism against which come in the camouflage of democracy,” he reminded.

According to him, NC has played a leading role to establish people’s rights to since 2007BS. But NC was facing challenge at present. Support from all sides is imperative to combat this challenges, he underscored.

On the occasion, senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel said the recent alliance of leftist parties to implement communism had created debates while the political system has been determined with the promulgation of the constitution.

However, the alliance is a wakeup call for Nepali Congress. Leader Prakash Sharan Mahat said there was no alternative of democracy in Nepal. Communism has failed worldwide. It is the NC that has brought all to democratic mainstream, he asserted. RSS

KATHMANDU, June 7: CPN (UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal today said his party would take up the policy of support and protest based on the government’s works and policies.

The main responsibility of newly elected Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is to realise his commitments to hold all three levels of elections in a free and fair manner, the UML leader said at an interaction organised by Press Chautari Nepal in the Capital on the subject of current politics.
He also clarified that the UML would not participate in the government.

Touching on the Bharatpur incident, he said the direction of the Election Commission to hold re-polls in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-19 was not good move, he said he believed the Supreme Court’s verdict to stay the direction would give a way out.

“If the new government would try to amend the constitution and review the numbers of local levels in the name of wider acceptance by sidelining the UML, it would not be acceptable to the party,” he said.

The event was also attended by UML secretary and Chief of the Publicity Department Yogesh Bhattarai, deputy chief Surya Thapa and Chairman of the Press Chautari Ganesh Basnet. RSS