CPN (Maoist Center) leader and minister without any portfolio Krishna Bahadur Mahara has said that a single individual should not lead both the left alliance government and the unified left party.
Speaking in a program in Ghorahi, Dang on Sunday Mahara, who has been elected from Dang-2, opined that there should be a respectful unification between CPN-UML and Maoist Center. "It will be a respectful party unification and separate individuals must become prime minister and chairman of the unified party after that," Mahara stated.
Mahara has called for respectful unification after UML General Secretary Ishwore Pokharel opined that a single individual, read UML Chairman KP Oli, should lead both the government and the unified party. "Instead of saying that UML will take over Maoist Center or vice versa we have to stress that both UML and Maoist Center will not remain in existence after the unification," he stated.
Stating that the process of unification has already started, he stressed that government formation and party unification should go side by side and unification should be respectful.
Dang will be provincial capital
Replying to queries of local voters as to which city will be selected as the capital of Province 5, Mahara also stated that Dang will be chosen as the provincial capital of at any cost. "I have already talked with PM Sher Bahadur Deuba, UML Chairman Oli and Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal about making Dang the provincial capital. You all can rest assured, Dang will be made the capital," he assured.
Pointing that he has never had to face political defeat till now, he claimed that his mission of making Dang will also succeed. He argued that Dang deserves to be the provincial capital on the basis of geographical location, infrastructure, adequate land, security and proximity from the rest of the Province 5. He also presented the plan of developing Butwal as the main tourist city of country and Nepalgunj as an industrial city.
