It's Time for Unity, Not Division: Yadav

Palpa, December 13

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Nepali Congress (NC) general secretary Dr Ram Baran Yadav on Wednesday urged the people to create a political culture of unity and not fragmentation. Pointing to the resignation of Madhesi MPs from parliament and NC general membership, Dr Yadav said, "No one should add fuel to the flames in the Madhes."

Speaking after inaugurating a new office building of the pro-NC Free Students' Union at the Tribhuvan Multiple Campus in Palpa, Dr Yadav rued that mountainous, hilly and Tarai regions' stakeholders in the country were pulling in diametrically different directions whereas the need of the hour was for them to work in tandem.

Dr Yadav urged the Jay Krishna Goit and Jwala Singh factions of the Janatantrik
Tarai Mukti Morcha to give up arms and take the path to peace. He said that all sectors should join forces to ensure that the CA polls are held without delay and in a free and fair manner. He warned that if this did not happen the aspirations of the people expressed during the April uprising would not be realised and the country would suffer a tremendous loss.

Dr Yadav said if the insistence on fully proportional polls was not dropped it would take another three years for the polls to take place. The idea of fully proportional polls is unacceptable, he said.

"It is the people who should have the right to elect their representatives. Fully proportional election means political dictatorship of a particular party, " said Dr Yadav.

Former president of the FSU Guru Raj Ghimire objected to the Maoists' idea of forging an alliance with "nationalist" royalists. He said that it was impossible to submit to another dictator (Prachanda) after one dictator (king Gyanendra) had been overthrown and added that NC should expel all those central members who dare speak in favour of monarchy.