http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/jan/jan06/news06.php
Even though Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala had said last week that the next cabinet meeting would fix the date of Constituent Assembly (CA) election, Sunday's meeting failed to do so.
The cabinet reiterated that the election would be held by Mid-April this year, but didn't come up with a definite date. According to a minister Girirajmani Pokharel, the next cabinet meeting would fix the date since Sunday's was the first meeting after the Maoists joined the government.
As per the Election Commission's request for 90 days after fixing election date for preparation, the government has only a week left to fix the date if it wants to hold the polls by mid-April.
Meanwhile, Sunday's cabinet meeting also took up the issue of Indian encroachment in Susta and other regions. It has directed Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan to study the issue further. At the meeting, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala said that he was also talking with India on these issues. The cabinet decided to take diplomatic initiatives to resolve the land encroachment problem.
Furthermore, the cabinet also decided to present a supplementary budget keeping in view the constituent assembly (CA) election.
The Council of Ministers also reached a decision to arrange for the expenses needed to carry out the CA election in the supplementary budget.
The cabinet also decided to extend the deadline of the high-level commission formed to probe into the Kapivastu carnage, return all the confiscated red-sandalwood to the country of its origin and appoint Govinda Bahadur Thapa and K.B. Limbu to the post of Chairman and Managing Director of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC), respectively. nepalnews.com sd/ag Jan 06 08
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