TANAHU, Sept 4: Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel has expressed dismay over the ‘slow progress’ in institutionalization of loktantra and achieving development for the country.

Leader Poudel was speaking in a face-to-face program on Tuesday.
He also opined that the nation was losing the opportunity for development due to the tendency of talking big about development but not paying heed to the people’s basic needs.

Charging that the development plans were tending towards centralization, the NC senior leader suggested decentralizing the development plans as per the spirit of federalism.

He added that there were doubts about this government institutionalizing democracy given its wont towards ‘threatening and controlling the constitutional bodies’.

Senior leader Poudel said that he has not made any compromise within any other leader of the Nepali Congress for getting to the post of party president and underlined the need of reforms in the party. RSS

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress Vice-President Ram Chandra Poudel today left for New Delhi, India, for his treatment.
The NC leader would undergo a surgery of piles as per the recommendations of the doctors. Poudel had undergone a minor piles surgery in the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu last week.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has said that upcoming CA election would be held on slated time, November 19.

At a meeting with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Director for South Asian Affairs Giles Thompson this morning, the Nepali Congress Vice-president said the election should be held in time and, for that, the international community was ready to cooperate.

During the meeting held at the Poudel residence at Bohoratar in Kathmandu, they held talks on the latest political situation of Nepal, ongoing talks among political parties and international cooperation for election, said Poudel’s aide Chiranjivi Adhikari.

On the occasion, Director Thompson enquired about the election preparations for Constituent Assembly (CA) and the progress made on talks among parties for ensuring participation of all parties in election.

Poudel also informed him that talks process was intensified with dissenting parties to hold election on November 19 and expressed the belief that the talks will be fruitful.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress Vice-president Ram Chandra Paudel underwent a surgery for piles at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH).

Dr Ramesh Singh Bhandari and others successfully conducted the surgery of Poudel.

According to RSS, leader Paudel is now at the Post Operative Ward of the Hospital and his health condition is normal.

Poudel was admitted to the hospital on Monday.

Doctors have advised leader Poudel to take rest for some days.

TANAHUN: Nepali Congress Vice-President Ram Chandra Poudel has said that the CA election would be held in the slated date and poll postponement will not be acceptable to the NC.

Talking to journalists in Tanahun on Friday, Poudel said poll will be held on November 19 at any cost. He also said that the efforts were underway to bring the agitating parties on board the election.  “Election will be conducted despite their absence in the poll process,” the NC leader opined.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has said that the NC was open to discuss all the preconditions raised by the hardliner CPN-Maoist provided that the CA elections were conducted on November 19.

Speaking at a program on the fifth anniversary of Lokkhabar Weely in the capital today, Poudel said the NC was ready to forge consensus in all points raised by the CPN-Maoist adding that the poll should be conducted on November at any cost.

He also said that the NC was committed to holding discussions by calling an all-party meeting as demanded by the CPN-Maoist.

On the occasion, NC leader Arjunnar Singh KC said that election was impossible without participation of Baidhya-led Maoist.

Likewise, NC leaders Prakash Sharan Mahat and Minendra Rijal also said that the NC would take initiative to bring the CPN-Maoist on board the election. 

Editor of the paper Saroj Adhikari, Chairman of Press Council of Nepal Borna Bahadur Karki, Chairman of Federation of Nepali Journalists Shiva Gaunle, Chairman of Press Council of Nepal Kiran Pokhrel, Reporters Club Chairman Rishi Dhamala and senior journalist Harihar Birahi among other journalists stressed media’s role for press freedom, welfare of working journalists and CA election.

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has vented ire on one of the top leaders of the country for the major political parties performance, specially on the upcoming CA election.

At a meeting with Nepali Congress vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel today, President Yadav expressed his dissatisfaction for major parties’ failure to bring the hardline Baidhya-led CPN-Maoist on board the CA election.

The CPN-Maoist on Tuesday concluded its central committee meeting in Pokhara deciding to concentrate the whole party power in the poll boycott.

“What the High-Level Political Committee is doing,” Poudel quoted Dr Yadav as saying.

President Yadav asked the leaders to take initiative to bring the CPN-Maoist on board the election.

Likewise, President Dr Yadav said that this electoral government should not unveil new policies and programs that have long-term effects.

LALITPUR, June 29: Acting President of Nepali Congress has attended a paddy seedlings plantation programme at Dandathok of Lamatar in Lalitpur district on Saturday afternoon.

On the occasion, Poudel said that modernization and commercialization of agriculture was needed to take the country towards economic revolution.

Saying that agriculture, hydropower and tourism were bases of Nepal´s prosperity, Poudel added, “We will make Nepal a haven within 10 years through development of agriculture, hydropower and tourism.”

He also stressed for developing a new culture of respecting agriculture occupation by reversing the age-old wrong conception about agriculture and farming.

Poudel said Nepal´s poverty and unemployment should be ended through adoption of new technology and commercialization of agriculture.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress Vice president Ram Chandra Poudel has said that the Baneshwor meeting of some civil society leaders was against republic and democracy, thereby condemnable.

At a program organized by the Nepal Student Union´s Lamjung-Kathmandu Liaison Committee in the Capital today, leader Poudel also said that Khil Raj Regmi should not resign from the post of Chief Justice and the party has not asked his resignation too. “Regmi’s resignation from Chief Justice would bring further crisis,” he said.

DAILEKH: Nepali Congress second in command Ram Chandra Poudel, who hinted at the polls alliance with the CPN-UML for the upcoming CA elections, has said that the UML is the most opportunist political party in the country and forging the polls alliance with the semi-communist would be a suicidal case to the NC.

Poudel was speaking at a cadres meet program at Rakam of Dailekh on Thursday. But, he said options were open to forge the polls alliance with other democratic political. Poudel also termed the UML as the political party sans political thoughts and bases.

“There is no meaning of poll alliance with the opportunist political force. The NC will get a clear majority in its own strength and we will draft a democratic constitution,” Poudel fumed against the UML.

After addressing the program, Poudel has left for Kalikot while the top leaders of the CPN (UML) are in Dailekh today to address a mass meeting at the district headquarters, Dullu.