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SLMM forms taskforce to prepare code
KATHMANDU, AUG 14 -
Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha (SLMM), an alliance of the four Madhes-based parties, formed a four-member taskforce on Saturday to prepare a code of conduct to govern the front.
The front’s meeting held at Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) parliamentary office on Saturday took the decision to this effect.
The taskforce comprises one member from each of the four parties. It includes Co-Chair of Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta, leader of Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Loktantrik Jitendra Dev, Vice President of Sadbhavana Party Laxman Lal Karna and Vice Chair of Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party Hridayes Tripathi.
According to Karna, they had thought of forming the taskforce since Madhes-based parties formed the alliance-SLMM. The alliance came up with the idea after 11 MJF lawmakers crossed the floor and voted for the UCPN (Maoist) violating the party’s directives during the third round of prime ministerial polls.
“The taskforce will set the scope and goal of the SLMM,” said Karna, dubbing the move a process to instutionalise the front. The taskforce will submit its report on Monday. SLMM will meet after the taskforce submits its report on Monday to decide its stance during the fifth round of prime ministerial election slated for Aug 18. SLMM has stayed neutral in all the four rounds of polls held so far. The Madhes-based parties are likely to continue their stance in the next round of run-off polls as well. “It’s obvious that SLMM cannot support a party that denies pluralism,” said Brisesh Chandra Lal, a TMLP leader.
In its response to SLMM concept paper, the Maoist party had said earlier that it cannot accept pluralism. In this situation, how can we be assured that the Maoists will agree to the concept of federalism proposed by SLMM, he questioned.
Meanwhile, a central committee meeting of TMLP took a decision that it would send a notice to the Constituent Assembly asking to declare vacant the post of lawmaker Ram Kumar Sharma.
Sharma had defected to the Maoists from TMLP a few months ago. “The notice will be sent on Sunday and the party will appoint a new lawmaker after the CA declares the post vacant,” said Lal.
Posted on: 2010-08-15 07:49
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