A meeting of the YAN Standing Committee held in Kathmandu on Wednesday took this decision. [break]
“Previous majority-based governments have proved that such governments cannot take the peace process and constitution writing ahead. So, we have decided to urge the major three parties---UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN-UML--- as well as United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMP) to take initiative for national consensus,” said Niraj Acharya, general secretary of YAN.
According to Acharya, YAN has decided to hold various programs to mount pressure on political parties for national consensus.
YAN will hand in a memorandum to the CPN-UML leadership on Thursday asking them not to participate in a government to be formed on the basis of a majority.
Acharya said they will also hand memorandum to parliamentary party leaders of the Nepali Congress, the UCPN (Maoist) and the five Madhes-based parties associated with UDMF, urging them to forge national consensus.
Similarly, YAN has decided to hold a gathering of all wings of the CPN-UML at Baneshwor on August 28.
However, the meeting did not take any decision regarding YAN Chairman Mahesh Basnet´s statement against Nagarik Daily and its Editor-in-Chief Narayan Wagle, a few days ago.
Basnet had threatened to close down Nagarik daily, a sister publication of Republica, and to throw Editor-in-Chief Wagle behind bars, while addressing a gathering organized by the YAN in Biratnagar Saturday to mount pressure on the administration and police to drop charges against Parshu Ram Basnet.
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Parshu Ram Basnet is charged with masterminding a murder attempt on journalist Khilanath Dhakal, Biratnagar-based reporter for Republica.
At the meeting, Basnet claimed that he did not make any such statement and his words were misinterpreted by media.
“I did not speak in the way it came out in the media,” one leader quoted Basnet as saying.
Earlier, speaking at the Standing Committee meeting, YAN central leaders had taken strong exception to Basnet´s statement, saying it had defamed the entire organization.
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