FROM PARTY POLITICS TO NATIONAL POL

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Subject: FROM PARTY POLITICS TO NATIONAL POLITICS

FROM PARTY POLITICS TO NATIONAL POLITICS

1. Why did I quit the NLD Central Committee in December 1999. ?

2. Having regained the opportunity, on 5 July 1999, of participating in 
national politics, what are the things that I plan to do ?

3. I propose to work hand in hand with the Tatmadaw, the National Force, 
toward the emergence of the State Constitution and to work within the law to 
safeguard and promote the interests and well-being of my constituents.

U Hla Soe
Pyithu Hluttaw Representative-Elect
Minbu/Sagu Constituency


PHITHU  HLUTTAW   REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT  FROM MINBU/SAGU  CONSTITUENCY  U  HLA 
  SOE'S  ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING  HIS  DECLARING  OF  INTENT   TO  PARTICIPATE 
IN  NATIONAL  POLITICS
     

1.     I, U Hla Soe, contested the Pyithu Hluttaw National elections of 1990 
as the NED candidate and was duly elected from the Magway Division, 
Minbu/Sagu No.2 Constituency.

2.    Representative-Elect I participated whole-heartedly in the work of the 
National Convention to draw up a new State Constitution. In 1996 Do Aung San 
Su Kyi was freed from house-detention and in the same year she called a 
meeting of NED Representatives at her home to discuss the advisability or 
otherwise of continued NED participation in the work of the National 
Convention. During the course of the meeting I pointed out that the drawing 
up of the new constitution was a task of momentous national importance, that 
it was a necessary step in the building of the nation, and that it would be 
politically inexpedient to boycott the Convention. Daw Aung Su Kyi replied in 
a hectoring tone that the matter was no longer open to discussion and that 
the decision had already been taken for the NED Representatives to quit the 
National Convention .

3.     From that time onwards, there was no longer any semblance of democracy 
or tolerance of dissent within the Party, as a result of which I resigned 
from the Central Committee on 10 December 1996. However accordance with the 
terms of Government Notification No. 1/90 which stipulated that elected 
candidates were to serve until the work on the Constitution was complete, I 
continued to attend the Meetings of the National Convention as a 
Representative-Elect.

4 .     On 18 April 1999, a group of members who had already resigned from 
the Central Committee and those who has not yet done so came together and, in 
a constructive spirit and imbued with a sincere desire to further the 

interests of the nation and the Central Committee, prepared and submitted a 
series of proposals to resolve the difficulties that the NLD and the other 
political parties were facing.

5 .     These proposals were rejected out of hand by the Party Central 
Executive Committee a.k.a the 10Member NLD Hlutaw Committee, which 
furthermore issued denunciations and violent criticism of the proposals and 
mounted a virulent campaign of scurrilous personal attacks and recriminations 
on the authors of the paper. An NED Office Order (No.142/See(Seeyone)99 dated 
14-6-99) and signed by NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe was issued declaring that the 
18 members who had signed the proposals were no longer connected with the 
Party,were no longer NLD Hluttaw Representatives and that they were hereby 
expelled from the Central Committee.

6.     As I had already resigned from the Central Committee in December 1966 
owing to differences of political opinion with its members, I had had nothing 
more to do with it, and in the present instance the Committee is merely 
exploiting the situation to their own political advantage.

7.     The National Elections Commission, in its Notification No . 
l9/Ya-Pa-Ka-2 dated 5 July 1999, declared that I am the duly elected Hluttaw 
Representative-Elect 1- independent) from Minbu/Sagu Constituency.

8.     It is my sincere desire to forsake party politics to engage in 
national politics and to actively cooperate with all the members of my 
constituency in working for their betterment.

Accordingly I hereby solemnly undertake

a) to work towards the emergence of the State Constitution. 

b) to work within the framework of the law to safeguard and promote the 
interests and well-being of my constituents.

9.     Respectfully

                    U Hla Soe
Hluttaw Representative-Elect(Independent)
           Minbu/Sagu Constituency