Finally to end the political deadlock and to give Nepali politics a new direction, the leaders of major political parties have agreed to form an interim election government under Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi. The UCPN-Maoist had purposed a Chief Justice led government few weeks earlier that invited lot of criticisms and constitutional hurdles. Now overcoming all those legal barriers by amendments in the constitutional aspects and despite protests from 22 of the parties, Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi has been sworn in as the chairman of the interim election government. Regmi who has now become the 36th Prime Minister of the country was sworn-in this morning amidst a function held at President’s office in Shital Niwas.
President Ram Baran Yadav administered the oath taken by Khil Raj Regmi during the ceremony. Two other ministers, Madhav Prasad Ghimire (Foreign Minister and Home Minister) and Hari Prasad Neupane (Minister for Law and Justice and Minister for Labour and Transport Management) were then sworn-in by Khil Raj Regmi at the same event.
UCPN-Maoist Chairman and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala, CPN-UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal, outgoing prime minister Baburam Bhattarai and senior government officials and heads of diplomatic missions and security agencies were also present at the function.
Khil Raj Regmi including the two other ministers has assumed their office starting from today shortly after their sworn-in and visits to the Martyr Memorial Park at Lainchaur to offer tribute to martyrs.
So, who is Khil Raj Regmi?
Watch this short introductory video from Kantipur television below to know more about Khil Raj Regmi.
Khil Raj Regmi has now replaced Baburam Bhattarai who was on the Prime Ministerial post for last 18months and 18 days. Bhattarai who left for his personal residence today turned on to twitter to express his excitement. He tweeted;
NowI am a free citizen.Thank you everybodywhohave stood with me during the last 18 months &18 days.
— Baburam Bhattarai (@brb_laaldhwoj) March 14, 2013
Meanwhile CPN-Maoist along with 21 other fringe parties has been protesting the agreement and decision by the major parties since this morning. They have also called for Nepal Banda in the Kathmandu valley to protest the decision till 5 in the evening.
The interim election government formed under Khil Raj Regmi will mainly pave way for holding Constituent Assembly (CA) elections by June 21, 2013. How optimistic are you about the elections being held on time? What’s your view on assigning Khil Raj Regmi as the prime minister of the country?
Images via Republica and ekantipur
It is time for the nation to once again come together as citizens of Nepal and go for elections. We have just moved forward from an unsuccessful prime minister who could not quite understand what his main job during his tenure was, to bring a new constitution. Whether it was his personal or party’s choice to not come to a conclusion and let all hard work of the past four years come to waste by dissolving the parliament, he has very well shown that his priority never was to give Nepal a new constitution but only to work as per his party for example nepotism(Hishila Yami appointing numerous relatives), rampant corruption, close to extortion in the name of peace process and relief packages (even managing to trick their own PLA members), several anti-national agreements ( we all want to see growth in foreign investment within Nepal but we should also be promoting to protect our own investment and only being biased towards protecting foreign investment, there was a definite political motive behind these agreements). Several threats he provoked against democratic values also tells us what kind of intellectual thinker he actually is. Kudos to widening the roads in Kathmandu Valley but you deviated from the main purpose. It has come to a realisation that we were somewhat correct when saying Baburam has a passion and character, unfortunately it has been used in every other way but towards Nepal’s new constitution. On a positive note, we have now understood what exactly Baburam’s definition of a New Nepal is and the citizens will not fall for his misconceptions again. Therefore a failed Prime Minister of Nepal. Time and again have we learned from mistakes, so, let us not fall back in expressing ourselves. Let us once again come together and build our nation!!!
our new prime minister mr regmi izz rckin the nepall n he iz been provin dat he iz capable of diz pst n I request him to be continued lyk diz.
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