Quotes of the Week

• Bhattarai is not allowed to remain silent after giving a public statement that he has the evidence for taking a bribe worth nine billion rupees.

If he remains silent, his morale and character will disqualify him from assuming any public positions.

- Yubaraj Ghimire

• 15 crore monthly income that the garbage collectors make and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City gets just 2 crores. The remaining 13 crores rupees that the NGOs are making a profit.

As long as there are such NGOs Kathmandu will not become clean.

- Ratna Sansar Shrestha

• Why didn't the country become rich? Answer: Who wanted to make it rich? Leaders, journalists, intellectuals, civil society leaders, government employees, security personnel, foreign friendly forces? Who?

- Rajesh Ahiraj • Among the candidates in your area, how long have they been MPs and what have they done? All you have to ask yourself before you vote.

- Sapana Phuyal

• Today again, the Nepali Congress, UML and Maoist workers have demonstrated love for the poor who are forced to do business on the streets.

Why are they poor? Who has been working for the upliftment of them in this country since 1990? How did the leaders who had the same financial situation until yesterday become rich overnight?

- Siromani Dhungana

• It should be made clear that Manushi Yami Bhattarai is not the Maoist candidate but Baburam Bhattarai's daughter.

If the father is a Maoist, she will be a Maoist, if there is a New Power, she will be a New Power, if the father is a JSP, she will be a JSP and again when the father returned to the Maoist party, the daughter also became a Maoist. What type of youth is she?

- RS Ghorsaine

• Should the government which is unable to control the Dengue outbreak be brought back to power through elections?

- Krishna Bhattarai

• For the past 32 years, the people have been defeated by the failed parties and the leadership.

20 November is both an opportunity and a challenge for us. Rewarding them means approving the current chaos, impunity and corruption. Let us wake up and recognize our power.

- Shambhu Chouhan • Providing election tickets to those who are against the party’s organization, principles, policies and programs by sideling dedicated party workers cannot be justified at any cost.

- Bhim Rawal • Prakashman and Nidhi like characters give slogans for change in leadership but they oppose the change which will be a loss for them. Congress cannot be strengthened because they both want to keep the party in the status quo and fall in love with outdated leaders like Sher Bahadur. Otherwise, the game of politics would have been different today.

Ashish Bhadra Khanal Why no one talks about the issue of Kalapani these days?

Narendra Bikram Chand They say that "broker capitalism" is bad. Sure, it is bad. Again, the very people inflate with them who are identified as bad!