Tuesday, February 19, 2008

िगिरजाले संघीय सरकार के हो भन्ने कुरा नबुझेको हुनुपर्छ



एक मधेस एक प्रदेश

एक मधेस एक प्रदेशको नाराका साथ अगािड बिढरहेको मधेस अान्दोलनलाई िगिरजाले अपमान गरेको छ। मधेस नामको राज्यको स्थापना हुनु भनेको देश टुट्नु हो भनेर िगिरजाले भनेको छ। मधेसी भनेको नेपाली होइन, भारतीय हो, भोिल कोही मधेसी यिद देशको प्रधानमन्त्री हुन्छ भने नेपाल िसक्िकम बन्छ, यािद इत्यािद कुरा त्यो सबै िगिरजाको ब्रह्माण्डिभत्र पर्छ। त्यो anti-Madhesi prejudice हो। त्यही सोंचका कारण िगिरजाले १५ वर्ष जित अगािड संसद बरू भंग गर्यो, तर िनिधलाई प्रधानमन्त्री बन्न िदएन।

हत्यारा िगिरजा

शान्ितपुर्ण अान्दोलनमािथ िगिरजाले बर्बर दमन गरेको छ। िगिरजामा कमल थापामा अब के फरक बाँकी रह्यो ?

छ पहाडी पार्टी

माग जित सब जायज छन्। सात पार्टी सरकार अब हुँदा हुँदा पार्टी सरकार भइसक्यो। त्यो पहाडी पार्टी सरकारले खुरुखुरु मधेस अान्दोलनका माग पुरा गर्ने। एक मधेस एक प्रदेशको मुद्दामा पहाडी पार्टीले commitment अिहले नै देखाउनुपर्छ। सबै पार्टी गणतन्त्रमा एक भए जस्तै एक मधेस एक प्रदेशको मुद्दामा पिन एक हुनुपर्छ।

रोम जलेको छ

मधेस अान्दोलनका माग पुरा नभएसम्म यो अान्दोलन थम्नेवाला छैन। तर पहाडी नेताहरू चुनावकालािगिलस्ट तयार गर्दै बसेका छन्। रोम जलेको ितनलाई थाहा छैन।

मधेस राज्यको स्थापना प्रित छ पहाडी पार्टीले commitment गर्छन् अिन बल्ल चुनाव हुन्छ। अप्िरल १०मा नहुने त िनश्िचत नै भइसक्यो। मधेस अान्दोलनका छ माग पुरा गर्ने हो भने अब अप्िरल २० अथवा २५ माचुनाव हुन्छ। दलीय पुर्ण समानुपाितक चुनाव हुन्छ।

देश टुट्न सक्छ

अिहंसात्मक, शान्ितपुर्ण मधेस अान्दोलनमािथ िगिरजाले पुिलस दमनको बाटो नै िलइराखे पािकस्तान रबङगलादेश दुई फ्याक भए जस्तै नेपाल पिन दुई फ्याक हुन्छ। मधेस अान्दोलनले अलग देश मागेको छैन। तरिगिरजा बाहुनले मधेस अान्दोलनलाई त्यताितर धकेिलराखेको छ।

२५% भुभाग

मधेस राज्य पुरा नेपालको २५% भुभाग मात्र हो। २५% भुभागको एउटा राज्य नाजायज माग होइन।

िगिरजाले वार्ता भन्दा के बुझ्ने

िगिरजा भन्छ वार्तामा अाउ, वार्तामा अाउ। वार्तामा अाउनु भनेको के? मधेस अान्दोलनका ६ बुँदा उसलाई पढेर सुनाउनकालािग मधेसी नेता वार्तामा जानु पर्ने हो िक के हो? उसले ती छ बुँदा अाफै िकन पढ्न सक्दैन?

खुरुखुरु माग पुरा गर्ने। अरू उपाय छैन।

In The News

Talks with UDMF inconclusive NepalNews wanted the six-point demands fulfilled at any cost
RJP to boycott CA election pointing at the situation in Madhes. .... just ahead of the Election Commission's deadline (Wednesday) of filing closed-list of candidates for proportional representation-based election.
PM says all problems will be resolved on the basis of unity and understanding
Indefinite curfew in Biratnagar; Terai bandh enters day 7 Highways traversing the Terai districts remain virtually deserted as the result of the general strike. The bandh organisers staged angry demonstrations in Janakpur, Rajbiraj, Birgunj, Kalaiya and several other Terai towns. The UDMF cadres also set fire to the customs office located at Ghadiarwa, Birgunj ..... Bazaars, industries and educational institutions remain largely closed in Bara, Parsa, Rautahat, Mahottari, Siraha, Saptari, Sarlahi and Dhanusha. Districts like Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Rupandehi, Banke and Kapilvastu have been partially affected by the bandh.
Terai Agitation and the Possibility of CA Polls
PM says the EC poll schedule will not be changed
MMT's Morang in-charge arrested
Curfew in many districts, Terai turmoil deepens declared Bara, Parsa and Dhanusha as riot-torn areas. ..... the eastern districts also continue to be crippled by the indefinite general strike called by Limbuwans.
No dialogue with govt in existing scenario: UMDF leaders create a favourable environment for talks -- by not resorting to using extreme force to quell the ongoing agitations in Terai; provide free medical treatment and compensation to those injured during recent protests; and respond positively to the six demands put forward by the Front. ..... Thakur announced that the agitating parties, including his own, were not going to submit the closed list of candidates to be elected under proportional voting system in the April 10 constituent assembly election. ..... Thakur said the agitating parties had not forged any working alliance with the armed Terai groups now, but he didn’t rule out the possibility of an alliance in the future.
Terai districts face shortage of foodstuff The Terai bandh has also affected the capital Kathmandu where very few passenger vehicles were seen on the streets on Monday due to fuel shortage while the price of consumer items have skyrocketed.
Matrika, too, rejects single Madhes demand
Valley fire brigades feel effect of fuel crunch

PM ready to address Madhesi demands that are not dangerous for the country Kantipur
UML not to ally with Maoists in CA polls
UDMF condemns use of force in Terai, calls on govt to create environment for talks they were ready for talks if the government released those arrested during the ongoing agitation in Terai, withdrew the “false cases” filed against UDMF activists, made proper arrangements for the treatment of the injured and stopped suppressing the agitation through the use of force. ..... “The mobilization of armed forces and the barbaric suppression of the agitation that followed have disrupted the environment for talks.” ..... 300 protesters have been injured ....... reports of clashes between the police and the protestors in Birjunj, Bara, Janakpur and Nepalgunj ...... excessive use of force by personnel of the Nepal Police and Armed Police Force, including beating of protesters after they had been brought under control.
Curfew in Bara, Parsa, Nepalgunj on 6th day of Terai strike The indefinite curfew clamped in Banke district headquarters Nepalgunj by the district administration since Sunday afternoon is still continuing. ....... The curfew was imposed after the agitating mob went berserk following the death of a civilian in a police firing yesterday. ....... Normal life across almost all Terai districts and 9 hilly-districts in eastern Nepal has been crippled since last Wednesday due to separate strikes called by United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF), Federal Republican National Front (FRNF) and Federal Limbuwan State Council (FLSC)
Tamsaling State Council calls indefinite strike in districts around capital Tamsaling State Council, an agitating ethnic group, Monday called for an indefinite strike in the districts surrounding the capital putting forth a five-point demands including declaration of Tamsaling region as a federal autonomous republican state.
Doctors halt services at Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital Doctors at the Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital in Birgunj Monday announced to halt work for an indefinite period. The agitating doctors decided to halt all services except emergency services to protest police suppression on the protests in Birgunj on Sunday. The doctors said that the police misbehaved with the doctors and manhandled the caretakers of the injured. Life across Parsa district became tense since Sunday due to the indefinite strike called by United Democratic Madhesi Front since last Wednesday.
Fuel crunch forces schools to shutdown the schools could not run schools buses to ferry the students from their homes because of the fuel crisis that has swept the capital. .... The entire schools in the capital will be forced to close down from Tuesday if the situation does not improve ...... the number of vehicles plying the streets in the capital has significantly thinned
Call roundtable to solve tarai crisis: RPP
Resolve tarai problems: Carter Center
‘Candidates’ everywhere at UML office!
मधेस बन्दले दैनिक करोडौं नोक्सानी
पेट्रोल अभावले मध्यमर्स्याङ्दी बन्द

Thakur says no agreement yet with the PM NepalNews
PM meets Madhesi leaders Matrika Prasad Yadav, speaking at an interaction at the Reporters Club in the capital today, stated the Constituent Assembly (CA) election would be 'successfully' held on the scheduled date even if 'any individual or groups boycotts it'. ..... Sarita Giri said the groups agitating in Terai have no option but to come to the negotiating table.
Terai bandh enters third day; locals in Rupandehi resist bandh
UML lawmaker quits parliament to join Madhesh 'movement' Dan Bahadur Chaudhary, a CPN (UML) lawmaker from Kapilvastu-1, announced his resignation from the parliament as well as the party on Friday. ..... said he differed on the UML’s opposition to the “one Madhesh one province” concept. ..... In the past few weeks, a number of Madhesi MPs from different political parties have announced their resignation from the parliament and their respective parties to join in the protest movement.
RPP demands roundtable conference a roundtable conference of all the parliamentary as well as Terai-based parties to resolve Terai problems. Minister Gupta’s faction to stick with SPA The meeting of the party had delegated the authority of preparing closed-list of candidates for proportional representation-based election and direct election to party general secretary Minister Gupta. ..... the dissident faction of the NSP-Anandidevi led by Khusilal Mandal has warned of agitation
Govt formally invites UMDF for talks


Thursday, February 14, 2008

माअोवादीको गणतन्त्रको माग जस्तै हो मधेस राज्यको माग





एक मधेस, एक प्रदेशको नारा मधेसी अान्दोलनको मुल नारा हो। त्यो माग पुरा नभएसम्म मधेसी अान्दोलन जारी रहन्छ। यो िसद्धान्तको कुरा हो। िसद्धान्तमा छलफल हुन्छ, कुनै िकिसमको compromise हुन्छ।

अप्िरल क्रान्ितले लोकतन्त्रको मुद्दामा compromise गरेन। मधेसी अान्दोलनले एक मधेस, एक प्रदेशको मुद्दामा compromise गर्नेवाला छैन। माअोवादीले गणतन्त्रको मुद्दामा compromise गरेन। त्यो अडान सही िथयो।

नेपालमा ४०% जनसंख्या रहेको मधेसी समुदाय नेपालिभत्र बस्न सक्छ भने भोिलको मधेस राज्यमा त्यहाँ ४०% जनसंख्या रहेको पहाडी समुदाय त्यस राज्यमा िकन बस्न सक्दैन?

मधेस राज्यको अवधारणाप्रित सत्तामा रहेका सात वटै पार्टी सहमित देखाउने गरी अगािड अाउनुपर्यो। त्यो कदम निलने हो भने िगिरजाको चुनवाको पिन त्यही हाल हुन्छ जुन िक राजाको नगर िनर्वाचनको भएथ्यो। िगिरजाले गर्न लागेको िनर्वाचन होइन नौटंकी हो।

िनर्वाचन ६०० सीटकालािग पिन हुन्छ कहीं नेपाल जस्तो सानोे देशमा? ३०० सीटकालािग दलीय पुर्णसमानुपाितक िनर्वाचनमा जाने।



मधेसी जनजाित अान्दोलनकालािग दलीय पुर्ण समानुपाितक िनर्वाचनको अावश्यकता
चार राज्य: कोशी, गण्डकी, कर्णाली, मधेस
नेपालमा ४०% मधेशी, मधेशमा ४०% पहाडी

In The News

PM Koirala’s role ineffective: UML Kantipur
Govt invites UDMF for talks
Indefinite Terai strikes enters day two United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) and Federal Republican National Front (FRNF) called the indefinite strike ...... The strike across the Terai has hit the capital hard, as the Terai is the only route to bring in petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene to the country from sole supplier India. ...... the three major Madhesi parties called the indefinite strike aimed at blocking roads to Kathmandu and other hilly areas of landlocked Nepal. ....... The agitating FRNF comprises of Madhesi Peoples Rights Forum Bhagyanath Gupta faction, Khumbuwan, Limbuwan, Tamsaling, Madhes Dalit Indigenous Party, Joint Tharu National Front, among others, called the indefinite strike putting forth its 3-point demands.
YCL to be mobilised to avert “Bihari style” elections
People’s faith in police eroding: Report
Black marketeers, profiteers make merry while consumers panic
मधेसी नेताहरूलाई चुनावमा आउन आग्रह
मधेस कब्जा गर्छर्ाांः यादव
मधेस आन्दोलनमा १० करोडको क्षति
मधेस आन्दोलनका र्सत

Govt formally invites UMDF for talks NepalNews
NC starts homework on election candidacies February 20, the date set by the Election Commission for submitting the closed list of candidates to be elected under the proportional representation system. ..... The EC has said each political party will have to submit at least 10 percent of 335 PR seats.
Second day of indefinite bandh cripples life in Terai the East-West Mahendra Highway that traverses a number of eastern and central Terai districts has been virtually deserted while educational institutions and industries have stopped operation since yesterday. ....... Birgunj, Biratnagar, Rajbiraj, Itahari, Lahan, Kalaiya and Gaur remain closed ..... The bandh has partially affected districts like Jhapa, Rupendhi, Kapilvastu, Nawalparasi and Banke.
Mahara urges agitating groups to participate in polls The Maoist party has announced that at least 200 YCL cadres will be mobilised in each polling booth.
Yadav warns of Madhes capture Upendra Yadav, chief of Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF), has warned of Madhes capture as a counter to Maoist strategy of capturing central state power. Reacting to Maoist chairman Prachanda's statement of capturing state, Yadav said his party will capture Madhes if that happens. .... an autonomous Madhes with right to self determination
Strike hits terai and eastern hills The organisers termed this strike as their 'final battle' to get their demands met before the constituent assembly election scheduled for April 10.
Thapa doubts timely polls Thapa warned that seed of disintegration would be sown in the country if the government ignored the demands raised by the agitating groups across the country.

RJP lawmaker quits parliament NepalNews Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) lawmaker Renu Kumari Yadav quit the interim parliament on Sunday, pledging her support to the ongoing agitation in Terai. She also resigned from her position in the RJP. In the past weeks, a number of MPs from different parties including the Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) had resigned from the parliament as well as their respective parties and have been waging a protest movement in Terai.
Gachhadar warns of disintegration if Madhes issues not resolved the country will head to disintegration if anyone tries to push the election through without resolving issues raised by Madhes first ..... it would be a folly to try to hold the election in Terai at this juncture without addressing various demands raised by Madhesis.
CEC asks govt to settle political and security issues within three days
Cabinet decides to ensure reservation for marginalised communities

Madhesis want a guarantee of autonomous province, says Mahato NepalNews decisive agitation from February 11.
Three Madhesi parties form new alliance; announce stir six demands, which include guarantee of an autonomous Terai state with right to self-determination, and proportional representation of Madhesis, Janajatis, Dalits and other marginalised groups in state organs including the Nepal Army. ...... protest rallies across Terai on February 11 and 12 while an indefinite strike will be imposed from February 13 throughout the country followed by a shutdown strike in government offices on February 16 and blockade and non-cooperation protest from the next day.
RJP chief asks govt to resolve Terai problem within a week to make election possible the people would not accept the results of the CA election if it is conducted with the backing of security forces and without the bringing armed Terai groups to the negotiating table. .... deployment of army there would bring terrible results .... Thapa warned that conducting election in the hills and Terai in two different phases would practically thrust the nation into the path of disintegration.
UML divided over electoral alliance with the Maoists

Madhesi Front forces administrative offices in Terai to close down NepalNews padlocked more than a dozen District Administration Offices including Dhanusha, Siraha and Saptari ..... the Front and Mahantha-Thakur led Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party (TMLP) have forged a working alliance to push the Madhes agitation. The decision was taken at a meeting held recently between the two parties in Kathmandu after the Front agreed to the 11-ponit demand put forth by TMLP
Ethnic groups warn of protests from mid-February United Republican Front (URF), the alliance of seven ethno-political groups ..... After a meeting in Birgunj Friday, leaders of the agitating ethno-political groups forwarded their four-point demands to be fulfilled before the constituent assembly polls. ..... The Front has called for a political conference involving all the agitating groups in Terai and the hills, amendment of the interim constitution, formation of an interim government before going to the CA election. It said the fourth amendment in the interim constitution should guarantee “right to self-determination” for ethnic groups in federal Nepal and adopt fully proportional election system for the upcoming polls. ....... The Front includes Limbuwan, Khumbuwan, Tharuwan, Tamsaling, Bhagyanath Gupta-led Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, Karnali Mukti Morcha, among others.
Govt preparing to come up with toothless TRC since responsible political leaders, high-level officials, and army officials could be implicated for war crimes and crimes related with forced disappearances, the Ministry has inserted provisions to provide them with amnesty.
Limbuwan strike hits eastern hills Public transport in Ilam, Pachthar and Fidim has come to halt.
Silence is also (an) action: King Gyanendra

Dark forces rising Nepali Times
Another window Sushil Koirala said that if he only knew how to get in touch with Goit and Jwala Singh, he would talk. ..... Sujata Koirala establishing separate contact with some madhesi groups through an aide. ...... no one trusts Sujata after she ruined Upendra Yadav by encouraging him to go for a second phase of the movement so she could get at arch-foe, Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula. ....... The government’s failure to implement the Upendra Yadav deal scares madhesi groups about going into negotiations. ...... Madhesi politicians do not see any point in talking to Poudel, whose ability to deliver has only diminished with Sujata’s ascendance. ...... Lainchaur also told Mahant Thakur to override objections within his party, especially from Hridayesh Tripathi, to ally with other madhesi groups. ...... Some editorials in the capital have called for deployment of the army to quell tarai troubles. Do that, and madhesi extremists will be thrilled. After that, not even Pashupatinath can save this country from the rise of an armed separatist movement.
Holiday in Kenya’s tarai the Kikuyus’ political and economic domination. ..... Strident demands for equality between Kenya’s 42 tribes ...... Coast Province is the local tarai, with a long list of grievances against highland domination.
Sitaula the survivor

Violence spurts after new poll date Kantipur Killings, abductions and other criminal activity by politically motivated armed groups in the tarai and other parts of the country have risen markedly since the announcement of a fresh poll date.
Janakpur tense on eve of SPA rally
Indefinite Terai banda cripples life on 2nd day Normal life in Terai has been crippled on Friday, the second consecutive day of the indefinite transport strike in Terai called by several Madhesi parties since Thursday. .... The traffic movement in Janakpur has come to a grinding halt. ..... 11-point demands including proportional representation in the upcoming Constituent Assembly polls slated for April 10. ...... The TMDP and UMF had called separate two-week long protest programmes in Terai from Sunday demanding right to self-determinism and autonomy in Terai.
Supposed talks between govt-TMDP put off
मधेसका सशस्त्र-निःशस्त्र समूहबीच सहमति
आमसभा बिथोल्न बन्द आह्वान
सेना परिचालन हुन सक्छ’

Security tightened ahead of Janakpur mass meeting NepalNews Parties like Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP) led by Rajendra Mahato, and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) led by Upendra Yadav have imposed bandh in several districts of the region – which have also been supported by armed outfits.
Armed and unarmed Terai outfits reach their own pact of cooperation the groups, on Friday, reached a 23-point agreement at an undisclosed location. ..... Manoj Mukti, Dhanusha district chief of the Madhes Raksha Bahini – a militant youth wing of Rajendra Mahato-led Nepal Sadbhavana Party – revealed that they have agreed to jointly resist the joint meetings of seven parties. .... they also agreed not to abduct, or demand extortion from people of Madhesi origin. They have also agreed to carry out their agitations jointly. ...... The agreement is said to have been reached among the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum led by Upendra Yadav, Raksha Bahini as well as armed groups such as Jwala Singh’s Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha, Terai Mukti Morcha and Madhesi Mukti Tigers. ...... concluded the deployment of police in Terai as non-political and unconstitutional move
Seven-party taskforce still undecided over formation of local bodies the Maoists want all-party mechanism that would also involve political parties not represented in the parliament

Nidhi says some Madhesi parties are trying to subvert democracy NepalNews
Terai tense as strike continues in several districts
Row erupts again in NSP-A

Three Madhesi parties join forces NepalNews In a joint meeting in Janakpur, Upendra Yadav-led Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF), Mahantha Thakur’s newly formed Terai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party (TMLP) and Sadbhawana Party (SP) led by Rajendra Mahato agreed to tie up. The meeting attended by the heads of the three parties formed a taskforce to devise the strategies and the structure of the new alliance. MJF leader Jaya Prakash Gupta said the alliance would be formally announced within a week. ....... saying that elections are not possible without first addressing the demands of Madhesi people

Civil war might erupt if election forced on Madhesi people: MJF chief NepalNews would also not let the election take place. Madhesi groups announce protests Samyukta Madhesi Morcha and Madhesh Terai Loktantrik Party have announced protest programmes in the Terai .... beginning January 23 to press for the right to self-determination and an autonomous region. ...... constituent assembly polls are impossible to be held in the scheduled date without first addressing the demands of the Madhesi people. ...... all education offices in Terai districts would be closed for a day on January 23, protest rallies would be held in Bara and Kapilvastu districts on January 24, vehicular strike will be held in headquarters of Terai districts on January 25 and protest rallies will be held in Rangeli of Morang district and Gulariya of Bardiya district on January 26. On January 27, the front will organise strike throughout the Terai. ..... Mahanta Thakur-led Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party announced its protest programmes effective from Sunday. Announcing the agitation programmes in Janakpur, Thakur said the seven parties in government had ignored Madhesi issues and there was no choice before his party but to launch a Madhes agitation. .... The agitation will be intensified from February 5 if the government continues to ignore the demands put forward by his party.
Stubborn Koirala and NC’s Impending Downfall the desire of the leadership to not listen to the voice from Tarai.
Thakur steps up tirade against election; to start Madhes agitation from Saturday there cannot be any election without resolving Madhesi issues first. ..... Thakur asked the government to hold talks with armed Madhesi outfits to create environment for election. ..... He also asked the government to stop what he called as ‘suppression of Madhesi people through the deployment of armed police.’