Kathmandu,
Nov. 19: Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has said that the government would
bring full budget at any cost by considering the needs of the country and
people.
The
opposition political parties' exercise to make an issue of political sharing
for the budget was against the interest of the people and country, the prime
minister said.
"The
government will unveil the budget in view of national needs. Preparations to this
end are underway. The irresponsible act of the opponents is totally against the
national interests," Dr Bhattarai added.
Receiving
a memorandum presented by Revolutionary Journalists' Association central
working committee on Monday, the Prime Minister said, "If somebody is
thinking of meeting one's petty interests by troubling the government after
stopping the budget then that is a totally wrong idea and such practice will
not benefit people in any way."
Politicizing
the budget is a dreadful practice and the opposition parties have not seen
anything except government and power, the Prime Minister claimed.
Dr
Bhattarai said that the opposition political parties were construing the
government's flexibility as its weaknesses though the government would accept
the agreement made by the political parties for ending the deadlock.
The
Prime Minister also said that at a meeting of three major political parties and
Madhesi Morcha the President has vowed not to go beyond from constitutional
boundary. He said there was no relevance of rumours spread regarding the
presidential coup.
"There
is no meaning of such rumours. There is no sense of wasting time by following
such rumours," the PM told the journalists.
The
PM further said that there was no reality on the publicity that President has
given a deadline of November 22 for political parties to forge a consensus and
added that the President has said that he would take no step sans political
consensus.
On
the occasion, the PM urged the journalists to play crucial role to
institutionalize the achievements of the People's War and People's Movement
adding that merely government can do nothing to that end.
Republic,
federalism, secularism, inclusion and others are some crucial achievements of
the people's war and people's movement achieved by heavy struggle and
establishing them firmly is our responsibility, the PM said.
The
PM further said that he was committed to implementing the Working Journalists'
Act in practice.
PM
Bhattarai also said that the government was preparing to do something in memory
of martyr Krishna Sen Ichchhuk, a journalist killed by the state security force
during the people's war.
The
PM said that the government was thinking to run Gorkhapatra Corporation and
Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) under the concept of cooperatives.
PM
Bhattarai said that he was not in favor of privatization of the two bodies like
the concept of previous governments.
Radio
Nepal and Nepal Television should be made more professional, decent and
pro-people and the government was also thinking to that end, he added.
On
the occasion, the Association presented a 28-point memorandum to Dr Bhattarai.
The
demands include taking stern action against those involved in killing of senior
journalist Ichchhuk, making public the whereabouts of forced disappearance of
journalists Milan Nepali, Chitra Narayan Shrestha, Rajendra Dhakal and others.
Some
60 journalists including Coordinator of the Association Govinda Acharya,
Advisor to the Association and Executive Chairman of RSS Komal Nath Baral and
General Secretary of Federation of Nepali Journalists Om Sharma, among others
were present on the occasion.
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