Nepal: PM Deuba says Communists trying to throttle democracy

Kathmandu, Oct 18: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that democracy was being challenged by the alliance forged among some Left parties. The PM said this while addressing the ‘national strategic training’ organised by Nepal Students Union, the sister organisation of the Nepali Congress in the capital on Tuesday, in the run-up to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies elections, The Himalayan Times has reported. He stressed that it was necessary to make the Congress victorious in the elections to safeguard democracy. “The Communists are trying to establish Communism by using the democratic system and fooling the people. It is necessary for all the democrats to be alert about this,” he said. Stating that the country itself would be in peril if democracy is threatened, PM and Nepali Congress president, Deuba called on all the Nepali Congress people to be united to defend democracy. “Finishing off democracy means the end of the Nepali Congress,” he added. UNI