Kathmandu, May 15, 2007

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala today assured Speaker Subas Chandra Nembang that he would take steps from tomorrow to resolve the deadlock in the House.

“The Prime Minister told me that he would take initiatives from tomorrow to resolve the deadlock. He assured me he would hold talks with political parties and MPs who have been disrupting parliamentary proceedings,” Nembang told this daily after meeting the PM.

The Speaker met Koirala at the latter’s official residence at Baluwatar in the evening after the PM arrived here from Biratnagar. “The Prime Minister has taken my suggestions positively,” Nembang said. According to him, Koirala was also positive on the demands of the political parties and the MPs.

The Speaker said the House disruption issue has become serious as the CPN-UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party have also supported the demands of the Maoists and the Madheshi MPs. Nembang, who is leaving for New York tomorrow to attend a United Nations meeting, said he urged Koirala to hold talks with the agitating MPs and the parties concerned.

The Prime Minister also held discussions with Deputy Speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav on the issue today. Before flying to Kathmandu today, Koirala, also the Nepali Congress (NC) president, said in Biratnagar that the party’s special convention may not be called immediately.

JTMM-Singh men kill two Goit men

Activists of the Jwala Singhlead Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) shot dead two cadres of the Goit-led JTMM on the banks of the Bagmati river, near Dharampur VDC in Rautahat district, last night.

“Paramananda Sahani of Gedahiguthi and Nagindra Baitha of Pipariya of the district were shot dead on the charge of murdering the then JTMM-Singh Rautahat district chairman Ajay Yadav,” JTMM Rautahat chairman Sher Singh said talking over telephone, and claimed that both were the activists of JTMM-Goit. The activists of the JTMM Goit had killed Yadav on Saturday.

However, the JTMM-Goit has not reacted to the incident. “Sahani and Baitha were taken under control from Parsa tole at Sangrampur VDC, at 9 pm. They were later shot dead after essential investigation,” Singh said. “Both of them received head, stomach and chest injuries.

Their bodies were found this morning, locals said. Two pistols and 10 rounds of bullets were recovered from the bodies,” Singh said. “We have not received any information regarding the incident, yet.

However, we have mobilised police personnel on the site,” said Yogeshwor Rumkhani, superintendent of police (SP) at the Rautahat district police office (DPO). Meanwhile, JTMM-Singh has announced a four-daylong Rautahat district bandh to protest the killing of Yadav, from today.