19 Nepali parties seek amendment to gov't roadmap

KATHMANDU, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Altogether 19 parties including the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) party on Thursday registered their proposals seeking an amendment to the government's program. According to reports from local leading news website eKantipur, in their 22-point amendment proposal, the Nepali Congress, the second largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA) has asked the government to replace the terminologies mentioned in the government's programs such as "Janamukti Sena" -- the People's Liberation Army which is the armed force of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) -- and Janayuddha -- the People's War, which was launched by the CPN-M from 1996 to 2006 -- with CPN-M soldiers and civil war respectively. The CPN-M led by its chairman and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" emerged as the single largest party after April CA elections and is leading the first republic government of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The Nepali Congress has also demanded that "the first joint government" should be mentioned in the programs instead of "the first national joint government". Likewise, the opposition party, in its amendment proposal, has also proposed to mention the returning of the properties seized during the decade civil war, compensation to those displaced by the conflict, dismantling of the paramilitary structure of the CPN-M youth front, the Young Communist League (YCL), a federal republican state instead of a forward taking constitution and the guarantee of a multiparty parliamentary democratic system. Terai Madhesh Democratic Party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Rastriya Janashakti Party, People's Front Nepal, and Nepal Workers and Peasants' Party among other parties have filed their own amendment proposals. On Wednesday, President Ram Baran Yadav had tabled the policies and programs of the CPN-M-led government for the next year at the legislative session of the Constituent Assembly.

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