POKHARA, Oct 31: Naya Shakti Party coordinator Dr Baburam Bhattarai has said his party decided to make an exit from the leftist alliance as he found the alliance was inheriting the ideology of an out-dated communist party instead the thoughts of a new socialist party.

At a press meet organized by Press Society Kaski on Tuesday, leader Bhattarai who chose to break away from the then UCPN (Maoist) said he saw no meaning of a communist party like that of the Stalin era and that’s why he proposed to constitute a new socialist political force.

It was just a rumor that the party decided to move away from the leftist alliance for not getting the Gorkha constituency no 2 and a total 15 seats in the upcoming elections, he said, calling the Naya Shakti a ‘fusion’ of leftist and democratic parties. RSS

NAYA SHAKTI CENTRAL COMMITTEE DISSOLVED; GENERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE FORMED

KATHMANDU, JULY 29: Naya Shakti Party Nepal (NSPN) coordinator Dr Baburam Bhattarai has shared that the unification process with Upendra Yadav led Federal Socialist Forum Nepal has come to an end for the time being due to the differences in both parties’ structure and ideologies.

At a press conference organized in the capital on Friday to make public the decisions of party central committee and federal council, he also clarified there was no possibility of unification with CPN-Maoist Centre in which Dr Bhattarai was holding a senior position until he walked out of the party.

Applauding the government’s decision to hold provincial and federal election on the same day, Dr Bhattarai reiterated that the unification dream between these two parties would in no way be possible.

On the occasion, Naya Shakti shared that it has dissolved its central executive committee and has formed the first general convention committee under the convenorship of Dr Bhattarai.

The party also said that the party will hold its general convention in the opportune time after the provincial and federal elections to be held by January, 2018.

Dr Bhattarai, also former Prime Minister, has been entrusted with the responsibility to determine the names of the members to be inducted in the 151-member general convention organizing committee.

The party meeting held today has also passed various 12 proposals relating to the national and international concerns.

The newly formed party has also appealed to China and India for seeking resolution on the border dispute between the two in the northern area of Bhutan- Doklam and urged the neighbors to accord respect to each other’s sovereignty and seek peaceful resolution.

The meeting has also decided that the directly elected President and fully proportional parliament were essential in the country and unifications be made among the political forces subscribing to the similar ideologies of NSPN.

Civic awareness drive against the cases of corruption such as tax exemption of Ncell, decision of Tax Clearance Commission should be launched, the meeting decided.

URLABARI, June 23: Naya Shakti Party, Nepal coordinator Dr Baburam Bhattarai today said the country could not pursue development until thriving corruption ends.

“My party’s aim is to end corruption as 70 to 80 percent corruption takes place in development works,” he said while speaking at an election campaign organised jointly by the Urlabari town committee of Naya Shakti and Upendra Yadav led Sanghiya Samajwadi Forum Nepal.

Naya Shakti and Forum Nepal have formed an electoral alliance for mayor and deputy mayor at Urlabari Municipality.

Saying unemployment could not end without economic development, the former Prime Minister said his party would launch a campaign to make the country prosper in the next two decades. He also urged party cadres to involve in the polls with courage and determination. RSS

BHIMDUTTANAGAR, May 23: Naya Shakti Party Nepal’s coordinator Dr Baburam Bhattarai, commenting over the big political parties’ alliance in the first-round of local level elections, said such alliance was for power play.

Speaking at a press meet organised by the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Kanchanpur here this morning, leader Bhattarai said, “The Nepali Congress-CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN (UML)-Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) alliances during the elections was for remaining in power.” RSS