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Acharya elected CC chairman Kathmandu, The Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly elected Nilambar Acharya of Nepali Congress as the chairman on Friday afternoon.Acharya received 29 votes while the only other candidate, Unified CPN (Maoist) leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha got 21 votes among 50 votes cast. Four members of the committee were not eligible to vote while five other boycotted the election. Four members were absent. "This is an attempt to alienate Maoists," Shrestha said after the defeat. "This does not give positive message. However, I have wished Acharya for the success." Nilambar Acharya is congratulated by Narayan Kaji Shrestha. Bhaswor Ojha Tarai Madhes Democratic Party (TMDP) boycotted the election in protest of the police action against their cadres. Mahantha Thakur, Hrideyesh Tripathi and Babaan Singh have left the committee office at Singha Durbar after being informed that their cadres who were protesting the Supreme Court decision on Vice President´s oath-row was beaten in detention on Friday afternoon. The committee meeting began at 11 a.m. – three hours late than slated time with eldest member of the committee Kul Bahadur Gurung presiding over. Dr Baburam Bhattarai proposed Shrestha’s name for the post and urged committee members to vote for him by rising above the concept of ruling side or the opposition to facilitate timely writing of the constitution. Nilambar Acharya sworn in as the chairman of the Constitutional Committee. Bhaswor Ojha Dev Gurung while supporting Shrestha said the post should go for Maoist as the largest party in the CA. Suprabha Ghimire presented Acharya as a constitution expert. Acharya was supported by Ratna Sherchan. The post is vacant ever since former chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal was elected prime minister in May. The election for the post was put off three times in the past, in a bid to find consensus among the political parties. Earlier the election process got underway after the last minute attempt to bring consensus failed. In a meeting held at the office of Speaker Subas Nemwang on Friday morning, United CPN (Maoist) proposed to postpone the election which the ruling coalition denied. Maoist leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Nepali Congress´ Nilambar Acharya are vying for the post. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, NC´s Girija Prasad Koirala, CPN-UML´s Jhala Nath Khanal and Maoist´s Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Kosh Raj Koirala II. http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/1168-ruling-coalition-not-serious-about-constitution-writing.html 'Ruling coalition not serious about constitution-writing' Saturday, 29 August 2009 17:20 A day after losing the election for Constitutional Committee chair, Vice chairman of Unified CPN (Maoist) Narayan Kaji Shrestha has claimed that parties in the current coalition government are not serious about drafting the new constitution on time. Speaking at a function in Dolakha on Saturday, Shrestha said the ruling parties are behaving irresponsibly regarding the constitution-drafting, and claimed that his party is very much committed to this mission as mandated by the last year's election. He said unwillingness of the 22-party coalition to let the biggest party in the coalition to lead constitutional committee has proved their ill-intentions. The Maoist leader also refuted allegations that the task of army integration and rehabilitation did not progress due to unwilling of the Maoists to join Army Integration Special Committee. He said the committee should be restructured at the earliest so that the task is taken ahead swiftly. Shrestha, who reached Dolakha to train party cadres for party's planned protests, said the protests may turn into a revolt or people's movement if reactionaries continued to interfere in the process of writing constitution. He further said the protest programmes announced by his party were to ensure a pro-people constitution is written on time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
