| So long, Nepal, nice knowing you. |
KATHMANDU - NepalÂ’s Maoist, former rebels Sunday extended their lead in the elections to choose a constituent assembly by winning nearly 60 per cent of the total seats declared so far. The Nepalese election commission said the Maoists had won in 59 of the 104 constituencies where results were declared by Sunday afternoon.
| Note to the Indian PM Manmohan Singh... when you left Indian policy on Nepal to your coalition partner Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party, it is perhaps no surprise that he engineered a Maoist takeover of Nepal. When you blacklisted the king and refused to supply arms, you set in motion a chain of events that you will rue for decades. You now have a failed state on your borders, a Maoist hellhole where the Chinese PLA will have free reign. There will be Chinese troops on the other side of the Himalayas. They will occupy the high ground and look down on the gangetic plains of India. Mr. Singh, do you have any idea of what you have allowed? |
Nepali Congress of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and the moderate Communist Party of Nepal - Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN- UML) both had won 16 seats each, while an ethnic southern Nepal party - Madhesi PeopleÂ’s Rights Forum, had won in seven constituencies. The Maoists were leading in 56 of the 106 constituencies where counting was underway while the Nepali Congress was leading in just 17 constituencies, the election commission said.
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Meanwhile, leader of the CPN-UML Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned as party chief taking moral responsibility for his partyÂ’s poor showing in the elections. Pre-election predictions had suggested that CPN-UML would become the single largest party in the constituent assembly. The party also said it would opt out of the government due to its poor performance. |