Kathmandu, July 19
Ruling party leaders including Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba have assured the agitating Rastriya Janata Party Nepal that the government will meet all of its demands except the constitution amendment within next three days.
Likewise, the amendment process will move ahead immediately after that, they have assured.
“The government will honestly take initiatives to pass the amendment,” Nepali Congress leader Ram Sharan Mahat told media after a meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar this morning.
“But, nothing can be guaranteed now.”
During the meeting, PM Deuba assured that the demands including martyrdom status to those killed in protests, treatment cost to the injured and withdrawal of cases filed against RJPN leaders and cadres would be decided within next three days.
Before the PM’s assurance, the RJPN leaders had expressed their dissatisfaction over the government’s failure to address the demands.
The government had proposed to put the amendment bill to vote now and set a precondition that the RJPN should accept the results and participate in local, provincial and federal elections. The RJPN, however, had said it first wanted to implement the decisions which could be made by the Cabinet meeting.
