CPN-UML demands early date for Nepal polls

Communist Party of Nepal (UML) today asked the Election Government led by Khil Raj Regmi to announce the date for holding Constituent Assembly elections at the earliest and create a conducive environment for polls.
Expressing concern over the failure on the part of the government to create a favourable atmosphere for elections, the party today asked the government to involve the disgruntled fringe parties in the forthcoming elections by adopting maximum flexibility.
The party alleges that the rival UCPN-Maoist led by Prachanda has turned into a rightist opportunist force from an extreme leftist party in the past and has adopted a capitulationist attitude in place of its earlier stance of anti-India nationalism.

Issuing a press statement at the end of the meeting of the party's highest body, party chairman Jhalanath Khanal expressed concern over growing foreign interference in Nepalese political affairs and pointed out that the party would raise foreign intervention as one of the major issues during the forthcoming election.
In response to a question, Khanal said that it would seek electoral alliance with all democratic and leftist forces except the Unified CPN-Maoist during the forthcoming polls.
"Democratic forces will get a two third majority in the next election", he claimed.
The party has also termed as wrong the move of the CPN-Maoist, the breakaway faction of the UCPN-Maoist, to boycott the election and its inclination towards violent politics.

The party has also asked the government to revoke the appointment of Maoist nominee Lokman Singh Karki as chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority, alleging that he had played a major role in suppressing the democratic movement of 2006.