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Nepal NC and UML parties wooing Madhes party alliance differently
July 29, 2010
While chairman of United Marxist Leninists Party, Mr. Jhal Nath Khanal on Wednesday July 28, 2010, wrote a formal letter to the Unified Democratic Madhesi Front urging the parties represented in the alliance not to take part in the third round of voting to elect 31st majority prime minister of the country, on the other hand, sources close to the Nepali Congress camp reveal that the party top leaders’ have adopted the policy of appeasing the Madhesi parties not to vote in favor of the Maoists’ candidate Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Teaching each other a lesson but toeing ugly practices.
The Unified Democratic Madhesi Front comprises of Sadvawana Party-Mahato, Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum (MJF)-Nepal, MJF-Lokatantrik and Tarai Madhesi Loktantrik Party and it has in all 82 parliamentarians in the 601 member parliament.
With the decision of the United Marxist Leninists Party to stay away from voting as of now, the victory for Nepali Congress candidate Mr. Ram Chandra Poudel has become impossible. Whereas if the Madhesi alliance vote in favor of Unified Maoists Party with 237 members in the parliament, formation of Unified Maoists’ party government is still possible.
The Nepali Congress has 114 parliamentary members in the parliament.
President Sushil Koirala, NC’s prime ministerial candidate and vice chairman Ram Chandra Poudel, General Secretary Bimalendra Nidhi and spokesperson Arjun Nar Sing K.C. have been seriously taking part in their assignment to appease the Madhesi parties, it is also reported.
A crack of late apparently has been observed in the Madhesi alliance on where to put its entire strength? To the RED or the democrats? The crack is widening.
The NC of late has received information that the pro-Maoist faction in the Madhesi alliance could easily go to the Maoists’ fold, thus the party leadership have been seducing each and every Madhesi leaders, report continues.
In their bid to damage the prospects of the Unified Maoists’ party forming a majority government with the support of the Madhesi parties, the report declares, the Nepali Congress leaders have been seeking support from Indian Ambassador, Rakesh Sood.
The idea is to split the Unified Democratic Madhesi Front if it decides to vote in favor of the Maoists’ party, the report further revels.
Ambassador Sood is playing double or even more. He is meeting Narayan kaji, Jhala Nath Khanal and some “Madhesi leaders†housed in the said Alliance.
With division already surfacing between J.P. Gupta and Upendra Yadav over their respective past linkages with the Nepali Congress and Maoists Party, the task could get automatically done, say NC sources.
Both, Yadav and Gupta belong to Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Nepal.
Similarly, Tarai Madhesh Lokatantrik Party and Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Loktantrik could any time soon declare themselves out of the Madhesi alliance, high placed sources further claim.
Is this the Sood Card?
Source: telegraph nepal
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