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Prachanda claims he will be Nepal's first President
LAST UPDATE: Saturday, 29 Mar 2008 - 2:29:58 AM
KATHMANDU: Maoist Chief Prachanda has claimed that he will become the first president of Nepal after the crucial April 10 Constituent Assembly elections, even as he expressed doubts over the prospect of polls taking place on schedule.
In an interaction programme at Rajbiraj, an eastern Nepal town, Prachanda claimed that his party Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) would get 150 seats out of a total of 300 seats in the direct election, and that he will become the first president of the Himalayan nation after the polls.
He also sounded a note of apprehension over elections taking place on the scheduled date. "I am not confident that the CA elections will be held on the stipulated date," he said.
Meanwhile, the daughter of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Minister without portfolio Sujata Koirala was also apprehensive about the elections to the Constituent Assembly taking place at the stipulated time.
Expressing concern over recent Maoist attacks against leaders and cadres of other political parties, she raised suspicion that the polls would be affected if the activities of Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League activists did not stop immediately.
The Maoists had recently attacked and severely injured Nepali Congress candidate Bal Bahadur K C in Solukhumbu and CPN-UML leader K P Oli in Morang while they were launching election campaign.
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