Leaders pin hopes on students’ stir
Addressing a joint mass meeting, organised by the CPN-UML, here today, Madhav Kumar Nepal, General Secretary of the UML said that the anti-monarchy slogans voiced by the students in the streets would turn into peoples’ fury against the king. "We will not be able to control the wave at that time," Nepal said.
He also stressed that the students’ slogans for republic had clearly indicated that the people were against king’s autocracy.
Referring to the students’ movement launched in 1980, which ultimately led to the referendum, Nepal said even now student movement could lead the entire nation.
He also reiterated his commitment to the five-party alliance. "This alliance would never be broken," Nepal added.
Speaking on the occasion, Krishna Sitoula, central committee member of the Nepali Congress, said that the country was drifting towards republic. "The more the king becomes autocratic and expresses his desire to rule the people, the stronger will be the movement against him," Sitoula said,
adding, "If it is continued, the king will ultimately be removed."
Sitoula also claimed that the students raised the five parties’ sentiments through streets. "There is no penetration of Maoists in the students’ movement," Sitoula said, responding to the army’s latest accusation on the subject.
Sunil Prajapati, central leader of the Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party and Kamal Narayan Chaudhari, leader of the Peoples’ Front Nepal (PFN) also pressed to intensify the street movement against the king.
Kishor Biswas, central leader of the Nepal Sadbhawana Party (Anandi Devi), charged the UML and the NC of weakening the joint movement after meeting the king.
Meanwhile, Amik Sherchan, chairman of the PFN, speaking in Okhaldhunga today said that the palace was conspiring to make Pashupati Shumsher Rana, president of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, the next prime minister.Posted on: 2004-01-19 04:03
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