JUL 24 – CPN- UML Vice Chairman Ashok Rai has remarked that he would form a new party if the major three political parties failed to seek a way to end the political deadlock.
The UML vice chairman said that it was necessary to form a new party because of the NC and UML’s failure to arrive at consensus. “The current time has demanded for strengthening the power,” said Rai, speaking at a programme organised by Nepal Loktantrik Janjati Federation in Kaski on Tuesday. He said that the mainstream parties have failed.
Rai warned of forming a new party to fulfil their agenda if the major parties did not address the demands of indigenous people. He went on to say that they would even take up arms if need be to fulfil their demands.
Likewise, CPN-UML Politburo member and coordinator of Adivasi Janajati caucus of former Constituent Assembly members, Prithvi Subba Gurung, said that a new force would be formed by incorporating all the indigenous, Dalit and marganilised groups. He said he is ready to quit the UML, which is afraid of federalism based on singular ethnic identity.
At the programme, UML politburo bureau member Ram Chandra Jha, central member Kiran Gurung and Bir Bahadur Lama, among other leaders, stressed on the need to form a new party.
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