Home Minister Bhim Rawal, who had refused to resign on Thursday, is now facing opposition from within his party. The Kathmandu Post writes:
CPN-UML has asked Home Minister Bhim Rawal to resign as his ministry has failed to maintain law and order. UML leaders slammed the government for its lax security leading to rampant attacks against media entrepreneurs, journalists, businessmen and the general public even in high security areas.
UML leaders including Vice Chairman Bam Dev Gautam, Yogesh Bhattarai, Thakur Gaire, Gorakh Bahadur Bogati said Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Rawal had no moral ground to lead the government.
While this is going on in the capital, people are taking laws into their own hands in the rest of the country. In Sarlahi, angry villagers torched four dozen huts in a landless settlement accusing one of the residents of child abuse. Kantipur reports:
A group of landless people had set up homes in the land belonging to Sagarnath Forest Development Project four weeks ago. Villagers claim one of the settlers, Ram Ashraya Pashwan, abused a Muslim girl while she was collecting firewood on Thursday and also beat another individual on Friday. Angry villagers got together and set fire to the settlement.
In Khotang, members of Kirat Janabadi Workers Party set two buses on fire because they said the buses were defying a banda. Nagarik writes:
Workers Party activists set fire to a bus headed towards Gaighat on Friday morning and one headed to Biratnager in the afternoon. Wielding khukuris, the activists asked the passengers to leave the bus and set fire using kerosene and petrol.
A Korean investor has left the country saying the security situation in Nepal is too dismal to continue operating. From Nagarik:
Go back to previous pageLess than four hours after Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said business operators need not be worried about their safety, a Korean investor has left the country citing security reasons. The company has invested $12 million on Himalayan Spring Water in Dhunche, Rasuwa.
The company’s president Harry S Han was attacked while he was sleeping in the last two weeks. He suffered from a broken arm, and needed seven stitches to close a wound on his head.
Who says Nepalis are not enterprising. At least some people are using their right to use violence to achieve their objectives. There is no logical reason for this right to be limited to only the Maoists.l
To state the obvious, life was (and would be) better under Home Minister Kamal Thapa and King Gyanendra!
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