The Nepali cabinet held its first meeting after the Constitution Assembly (CA) Sunday and decided to give authority to the Ministry of Home Affairs to set up an independent commission to investigate into the election-related violence.
The cabinet meeting also declared to provide some 24,000 U.S. dollars to the families of those killed during the CA elections.
A candidate of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) for CA polls Rishi Prasad Sharma was killed ina clash with the Nepali Congress (NC) activists on April 8 in Surkhet district, some 375 km west of capital Kathmandu.
Similarly, on the very day seven cadres of the CPN-Maoist youth front Young Communist League (YCL) were also killed in a clash with police in Dang district, some 280 km southwest of Kathmandu.
The cabinet meeting also decided to call the next Seven-Party meeting at the earliest in the changed political landscape.
Emerging from the cabinet meeting held in Nepali capital, Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara said the meeting discussed about the oath to be taken by the CA members, among other issues.
Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel said the meeting discussed about providing compensations to the kin of the deceased persons who were killed during the uprising in southern Terai plain of Nepal.
CPN-UML ministers, who had tendered their resignations on April14 following the party's defeat in the CA elections, did not show up at the cabinet meeting, though the Prime Minister has not approved the resignations.
Source:Xinhua
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