Kathmandu, UCPN-M ko maat gaadana aashuikaar garne vanai prati aapatti. Kathmandu/November 21 Some leading civil society leaders of the country have expressed their regrets over the UCPN-M decision to walk out of the Constituent Assembly ballot-counting process, a full dozen hours after the exercise began. The statement was issued by INSEC Chairperson and coordinator of Civilian’s Campaign for Clean Election, Subodh Raj Pyakurel, human rights activist Charan Parsai and Prof. Amuda Shrestha, journalists Kanak Mani Dixit and Chandra Kishore. Welcoming the commitment of the Election Commission and the Government of Nepal to continue with the process of ballot-counting and declaring winning candidates, they said that they rejected reject any demand put forward by the UCPN-M to obstruct the vote tallying process, including the call for 'negotiations', and asked for uninterrupted continuation of the electoral procedures. They also recalled that the UCPN-M leaders, including Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice-Chairman Baburam Bhattarai, had themselves publicly praised management of the elections and security arrangements. It noted that the party had taken the political lead in all developments related to these polls, from the establishment of the interim election government to defining the electoral regulations and process, up to the conclusion of the balloting-casting. “We found the midnight statement released by the UCPN-M pokesperson as well as the views expressed by Chairman Dahal in the morning of 21 November to be wholly contradictory to the involvements of the party listed above”, the civil society leaders said. Saying that the UCPN-M, which is supposed to have abandoned the use of violence in favour of peaceful politics, they demanded that the party to accept the democratic process and called on to to accept the people's verdict for the sake of its democratic commitment. Onli