KATHMANDU, NOV 01 - Representatives of the ruling coalition have asked the UCPN (Maoist) to withdraw its nationwide agitation.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Saturday urged the Maoists to put off the stir. This is the time for reconciliation, not for protests, the prime minister said at a fund-raiser for the Manmohan Memorial Community Hospital.
Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala, speaking in Bhaktapur, appealed to the Maoists to work for consensus.
Koirala asked all parties to make meaningful efforts to resolve the political crisis. Senior leader of the CPN (UML) K.P. Sharma Oli, speaking in the Capital on Saturday, pledged a respectable place in the government for the Maoists if they called off the protest.
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KATHMANDU: Nepal's Maoists said on Sunday they would launch protests aimed at destabilising the government in a dispute over the military that led to the Maoists' fall from power in May.
The former rebels, who fought a decade-long civil war with the state before winning elections last year, stepped down after the president overruled their attempt to sack the army chief.
From Monday (today) we will launch our nationwide protest by surrounding government offices all over the country with thousands of our supporters, Dev Gurung, a senior Maoist leader, told AFP.
The Maoists also vowed to bring Kathmandu to a standstill on November 10 by shutting the country's only international airport and blocking all highways.
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