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Cong at variance over new squad
SINDHUPALCHOK, JUN 12 -
Senior leaders of the Nepali Congress (NC) Sher Bahadur Deuba and Khum Bahadur Khadka, who had arrived in the district to make public the party’s youth squad — the Tarun Dasta — on Saturday, returned to the Capital
without its official launch, following pressure from the party leadership.
A scheduled programme was called off after NC acting President Sushil Koirala mounted pressure on the leaders not to launch the squad. He told the leaders to halt the announcement of such a squad. Koirala threatened action against anyone going against the party policies.
Around 500 NC activists, all clad in blue uniform, gathered in Chautara, the district headquarters of Sindhupalchok, to march to the official site where the squad was supposed to be launched.
Addressing a mass meeting organised there, Deuba accused the UCPN (Maoist) of continuing its “violent activities” in the country.
The former prime minister claimed the former rebels should immediately give up their “politics of threat and intimidation.”
Apparently miffed with Koirala’s stance on the squad, Khadka flayed the party leadership for not letting them announce the squad.
He claimed that his party made a mistake by supporting secularism. “Secularism is wrong. Nepali Congress made a mistake by following the agenda of the Maoists,” he said.
Posted on: 2010-06-13 08:49
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