Major Nepali and English broadsheet dailies published from Kathmandu on Thursday have given the top priority to various political issues. A memorandum submitted by 21 Central Committee members of the ruling Nepal Communist Party and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s meeting with ministers and secretaries for the evaluation of individual ministries has received the most significant coverage on the front pages of the broadsheets. Likewise, the murder of a brick kiln staffer in Sunsari district of eastern Nepal has also been highlighted.
Meanwhile, activities of various committees in Parliament have also been featured on the front pages of some newspapers. Besides, they have published some reports from sociocultural and economic spheres.
Important
21 NCP leaders urge leadership for early meeting
Kantipur, Naya Patrika, Nepal Samacharpatra, Rajdhani and Republica report that 21 leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the chairpersons KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal demanding the Central Committee meeting be called at the earliest to discuss various issues.
The leaders close to the party’s senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal have claimed the party and the government under its leadership have turned unpopular due to the leadership’s failure, reports Naya Patrika.
Meanwhile, leaders loyal to Jhala Nath Khanal and Bamdev Gautam have kept mum on the issue whereas the Oli camp has accused former PM Nepal of inciting the dissidents, reports Nepal Samacharpatra.
PM unhappy with ministers’ performance
Apparently dissatisfied with the performance of ministers, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has directed his ministers to improve, according to the lead story in Gorkhapatra.
The Prime Minister warned that he would take action against them otherwise. “The present working style produces hopelessness in people. Hopeless people are dangerous for the state,” he told the meeting, according to a brief story in Naya Patrika.
Ignored
New House session to begin in December third week
The Federal Parliament Secretariat is preparing to ask the government to summon the next session of Federal Parliament from the third week of December, according to a box story in Nepal Samacharpatra.
Preparations were underway to call the meeting in the second week, but it would be deferred by one week due to the mahasamiti meeting of main opposition Nepali Congress, the report adds.
Congress fails to forge consensus on statute
A panel formed to recommend amendments to the statute of Nepali Congress has failed to forge consensus, and it is preparing to forward its report with multiple options to the Central Working Committee, according to Rajdhani.
The next meeting of Congress CWC has been scheduled for coming Sunday.
Meanwhile, the party’s President Sher Bahadur Deuba has directed top leaders of the party not to leave the capital for now, the report informs.
Right to life is more important than right to business: High Court
Kantipur reports in a snippet that the Patan High Court has observed right to life is more important than right to business. Scrapping a writ petition that demanded that operation of tippers be allowed in Kathmandu during daytime, a single bench of judge Tek Narayan Kunwar said the current ban was justified.
House committee to probe President’s motorcade controversy
Amid widespread criticism of the government’s plan to expand the area of Office of the President by acquiring the land of Nepal Police Academy and purchasing a set of new vehicles for President Bidya Devi Bhandari, the Public Accounts Committee in the House of Representatives has started preparations to investigate into the issue, according to a two column story in The Kathmandu Post.
Nidhi says Yogi Adityanath shouldn’t be invited to Janakpur
A three column story in Republica informs that Nepali Congress Vice-President Bimalendra Nidhi has said the Chief Minister of Indian state of Uttar Predesh, Yogi Adityanath, should not be invited to attend a Vivaha Panchami ceremony in Janakpurdham next month as he has been advocating for a Hindu kingdom.
His statement comes at a time when media reports have said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his visit to Janakpur on the occasion, and Yogi is coming instead, also to inaugurate a cross-border railway.
Interesting
New intellectual property law proposes landmark reforms
So far, Nepal has not been able to control practices of copying international business trademarks for the want of effective law. In order to address this problem, the government has finalised the draft of the Industrial Property Bill, which has proposed some landmark reforms, according to the lead story in The Himalayan Times.
The bill to be tabled in the next session of Parliament will replace the 53-year-old Patent, Design and Trademark Act.
