KATHMANDU - A Nepali Maoist leader on Tuesday urged the constitution be thrown out, parliament dissolved and an interim government including the rebels formed before elections are held to map the nationÂ’s future.
Now that the King has been neutered and the Army brought to heal under the parliament, the parliament's job is done. Time to get them out of the way so that the Maoists can take over and kill everyone. | “We are going to have a new constitution. But how can you have that without abrogating the old one?” asked Krishsna Bahadur Mahara two days after arriving in the Nepali capital to lead a three-member team in talks with a caretaker government.
The talks are to pave the way for a meeting between reclusive Maoist chief Prachanda and Prime Minister Girija Prasasd Koirala, appointed to head a multi-party government after violent protests forced King Gyanendra to give up power.
Mahara said a “national political conference” attended by all political parties including the rebels and the civil society should form an interim government to hold a planned election for a special assembly to decide the future political set up of the Himalayan nation and draft a new constitution. “Reinstatement of parliament was not our demand,” Mahara told Reuters in an interview, sitting in a plastic chair on the second floor balcony of a Kathmandu home.
“The parliament should be dissolved permanently and the constituent assembly should be in place as soon as possible,” said Mahara. “We want this to happen in six months if possible.”
The constituent assembly then will be intimidated and bullied into writing a constitution that favors the Maoists, and the country will be pushed into voting for it. One man, one vote, one time. | Mahara said the rebels were prepared to place their weapons under the supervision of the United Nations or any other ”credible” international organisation only if the army did too. “We are prepared to do that to ensure that the people don’t have to vote out of fear,” he said.
"We have ways of making sure they vote correctly," he added softly. |
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