Thank you very much for publishing my letter to the editor (Letters, #272). But the balanced message I put forward has not been conveyed in true spirit with your editorial onslaught. I had suggested that the agitating parties should be 'putting forward criteria to ensure a free, fair election. They could strongly propose themselves to have an interim government before election'. Further, I wrote 'the government also is creating a problem rather than a solution by promulgation of highly disputed ordinances on media without adequate consultation with the concerned institutions and then try to implement it forcibly in a hurried manner. Has not the time come for all the concerned forces to shed their egos and sit on the table for discussion towards a lasting peaceful solution?'.

Badri Raj Pande,
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