Letter’s contents •    Security agencies will return to their normal roles after parties make  efforts to seek negotiated settlement of their grievances •    Treatment of the injured persons and providing compensation to the  victims is the state’s responsibility •    Past agreements can be discussed on the negotiating  table Kathmandu, August 30 Prime Minister Sushil Koirala sent fresh invite for talks to the constituents of United Democratic Madhesi Front, Tharu Kalyankarini Sabha and Tharuhat/Tharuwan Joint Struggle Committee urging them to come to the negotiating table. According to a press release issued by Prime Minister’s Press Coordinator Prakash Adhikari, the PM has stated that security agencies would return to their normal roles after parties make efforts to seek negotiated settlement of their grievances. The PM said treatment of the injured persons and providing compensation to the victims was the state’s responsibility. He added that the past agreements could be discussed on the negotiating table. The PM wrote the letter after the signatories of the 16-point agreement — the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML, the Unified CPN-Maoist and the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum — decided to reject UDMF’s demand of halting the constitution-making process for talks on constitutional issues. General Secretary of Tarai Madhes Democratic Party Sarvendranath Shukla, who received the PM’s letter on behalf of UDMF, said it would be difficult for them to sit for talks on the basis of the new letter. “I am not in a position to divulge all the details of the letter but the government refused to withdraw the Nepali Army from the Tarai districts and we cannot accept this,” Shukla said. He said the PM wrote in the letter that once Madhesi forces sat for talks normalcy would return and the government would withdraw the Nepali Army, which implied that Madhesi forces created ‘state terrorism.’ “First the state should end its repression in Tarai districts,” Shukla added. When asked if the PM rejected front’s demand of halting the constitution-making process, Shukla said the PM did not categorically reject the demand but said it would be better if talks and constitution-making process would move hand in hand. UCPN-M negotiator Narayan Kaji Shrestha said the major parties were of the view that since the possibility of amending the draft constitution was still there, they should halt the constituting making process. Sadbhawana Party Chair Rajendra Mahato said UDMF was not against dialogue but the government should prepare ground for talks by halting the constitution-making process. “If the three major parties do not halt the constitution making process and if they are determined to frame their kind of constitution, then there is no need to talk to them,” he said and added that the ongoing movement was to ensure Madhesis’ rights and not to hold talks with the major parties. “We have held rounds of talks with the government and the major parties in the past. They need to implement the past agreements. There should be Madhes and Tharuhat provinces in Tarai as per the agreement,” he said. He added that if the major parties did not prepare ground for talks, then there was no need to hold talks.