Taking part in the opening day in the House of Representatives, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala said, As the parliament is the sovereign forum to discuss and solve the country s burning problems, all political parties need to work together for the cause of the nation and the people. Koirala also said that the government was going to introduce several bills in order to control corruption and provide good governance. Opposition parties have accused the government of completely failing to solve national problems and have demanded the Prime Minister s resignation. Madhav Kumar Nepal, main opposition leader and General Secretary of CPN-UML said that since the Prime Minister has not been able to solve problems like the Maoist insurgency, corruption, unemployment, inflation, and the entrance of politics into bureaucracy and even educational institutions, the premier needed to step down and allow others to take initiative to resolve these problems. Similarly Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Surya Bahadur Thapa and MPs from other parties also demanded Koirala s resignation.
Eyewitnesses say the rebels walked away freely before the police arrived.
Pant, chairman and central member of the NSU Gorkha District Committee was flown to Kathmandu for treatment and is reported to be in a serious condition. Nepal Students Union condemned the attack and demanded severe action against the attackers. Gorkha is one of the 17 districts severely affected by Maoist insurgency. Thursday withdrew its planned programme to surround the rostrum of Parliament Thursday after the government appointed a three member probe committee headed by a judge to investigate last December s communal violence that killed seven and injured hundreds. The committee is headed by judge of Lalitpur Appellate Court Govinda Bahadur Shrestha and consists of a senior Home Ministry official and a lawyer and will submit its report in 45 days, an official announcement said.