2 Sept, Kathmandu: Chairman of the Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP), Mahantha Thakur, has given a signal that they could sit for talks if environment conducive to it was created.

Receiving a memorandum submitted by the Reporters’ Club at the party office at Bijulibazaar today, Chairman Thakur said an environment favourable for talks is created only if violence taking place in Tarai abated and the situation turned normal.

He pointed out that the government should make commitment to call back the security personnel mobilized at different places in Tarai, lifting the curfew enforced at different places, declaring martyrs to those killed during the agitation, free treatment to the injured and compensation to the victim families if it wanted to call them to talks.

“None of the agreements and the pacts made with the State in the past has been implemented by the government, what the use of new agreement,” Thakur said, adding the party will only consider for consensus if the government pledged to implement the agreements made by the government with the Madhesi political parties.

Arguing that mobilization of the security personnel in the peaceful protest in the Terai belt had imperiled the peace and security in the villages, he spoke of the need to revoke the decision to deploy security personnel.

President of the Club, Rishi Dhamala shared that the memorandum was submitted to Thakur in view of the current political situation in the country and to press the Madesh-centric parties to sit for talks with government to resolve the issues. RSS