The Unified CPN (Maoist) Saturday decided to allow the legislature parliament to function normally for three days so that the government's budget for the year 2009/10 could be passed.

A meeting of the party's central committee took this decision. Speaking at a press conference after the central committee meeting held at the party headquarters Paris Danda, Koteshwor, party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the party decided to discontinue the House obstruction for the passage of the budget as its responsibility towards the civil servants and security personnel, whose salaries are going to freeze if the budget is not passed.

Dahal also said the dialogue for finding a solution to the current political deadlock would continue once Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala returned home from Singapore. Koirala, who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Singapore, is scheduled to return home on Sunday.

The Maoist chairman also vented anger against Nepali Congress leaders for their comments that they didn't know anything about the understanding between him and their president, during their meeting in Singapore, to find a mutually agreeable solution.

Meanwhile, the Maoist party has declared the third phase of protest movement for 'civilian supremacy' vis-à-vis the President's move in the army chief case.

As per the decision of the central committee, the party will organise publicity campaign, sit-in programmes and protest rallies throughout the month of Mangsir (November-December), mobilising its sister organisations and the ethnic and regional organisations.

Likewise, the party will organise nationawide general strike for three days from December 20 if its demands are not addressed.

The party will also continue protests against the President, Prime Minister and ministers and boycott the public functions attended by them. nepalnews.com

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