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Last Saturday, only one day after Pushpa Kamal Dahal ("Prachanda") has been elected (*) as the first PM of the F.D.R. Nepal..

Anti-Miss Nepal campaigners meet PM; vow to stop the event

Members of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Revolutionary Women's Association met their party chief and Prime Minister elect Pushpa Kamal Dahal and discussed their campaign against Miss Nepal contest scheduled to be held next month.

Campaigners against Miss Nepal contest submitting a memorandum to newly... 
The delegation members told the Prime Minister that they were determined to disrupt the contest, and sought help from the government for their move. In response, the Prime Minister said he was positive about the demand of women activists and assured he would discuss the matter with leaders of other parties.

Association's leader Amrita Thapa Magar who led the delegation told reporters that her organisation had vowed to disrupt Miss Nepal contest.

The women activists have described the beauty show as being socially unacceptable and as a tool to exploit the contesting women for commercial gain. Women organisations of some other parties including Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) have also joined forces with the association...

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/aug/aug16/news04.php

* Prachanda elected PM with 464 votes (NepalNews, 8.15)