'Strategy that undermines constitution worrisome'

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Nov. 2: Minister for Home Affairs Balkrishna Khand Tuesday said that some political parties had a strategy of tearing up the constitution promulgated by the Constituent Assembly after the long struggle and sacrifice of the people.

In a programme organised in Siddharthnagar Municipality-12 of Rupandehi, Minister Khand said that there is a conspiracy to overturn the system where sovereignty is vested in the people, and this effort must be resolved by the people themselves. 

CPN-UML and Janata Samajwadi Party have formed an alliance against the ruling parties by including the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, which carried the deposed monarchy dethroned by the parties themselves. 

He argued that the CPN-UML-led three-party alliance was bent on revoking the constitution and pushing the country towards backwardness.

Although the constitution made by the people's representatives can be amended by two-thirds votes in the parliament, he urged the citizens to be aware and to defeat the powers that use such a strategy through elections, saying that such efforts to tear the constitution against the spirit of the people's movement should be foiled through the election.

In order to change the condition of the citizens in the system brought after a long struggle, the Home Minister said that the alliance between the Congress, Maoists, Unified Socialists, Democratic Socialists and the People's Front had entered into the election.

He said that peace, stability, good governance and development in the country cannot be secured only by garnering majority votes, so there is a necessity of alliance among the parties. 

He said that the present ruling alliance was not only for the formation of a coalition government but also to establish peace in the country and take it on the path of progress.