On Fifth Loktantra Day

Fifth anniversary of the historic People’s Movement-II- Loktantra Day- is being marked all over the country on Sunday amid a special function at the Army Pavillion in the capital.
Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal said all political parties should actively engage themselves in drafting a democratic constitution as per the aspiration of the people after successfully concluding the ongoing peace process while addressing a special programme marking the Loktantra Day at the Army Pavilion, Tundikhel in the capital.
We have felt that the differences between the co-workers of the people’s movement, at a time when the peace process, Maoist combatants’ integration and constitution is yet to be concluded, has distressed the Nepali people,” reads
The UCPN (Maoist) has issued a press release on the occasion of the Democracy Day on Sunday. The Maoists has remarked that the people are saddened by the disagreement among the partners of the people’s movement, when there are still a lot of important tasks remains unfinished to institutionalize the achievements made through the movement. They have called on all to patch up the mistrust, doubts and differences among the parties and collaborate for the peace process and the constitution.
Congress President Sushil Koirala accused the Maoists of being disloyal to democracy and the peace pact while addressing an assembly at a “people’s awareness” program organised by the Nepali Congress at Chipledhunga, Pokhara to mark the 5th Loktantra Diwas.
Koirala claimed that the Maoists are the main hurdle for the failure of the constitution draft and requested all the people to pressurize the government for the peace process and the promulgation of the constitution.
The former prime minister and CPN-UML senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal said the term of the CA should not be extended indefinitely in the name of statute drafting at a programme organised to mark the fifth Loktantra Day, by the party in Thimi, Bhaktapur. He has accused the Maoists of being the main hindrance in peace and statue drafting processes