nepal in struggle

CPN-Maoist CC meet called off
KATHMANDU, June 18: The CPN-Maoist Central Committee meeting that was scheduled begin Wednesday in Pokhara has been called off for ´technical´ reasons. The meeting was to come up with its official position after the announcement by the government of the date of Constituent Assembly elections. “We have called off our central committee meeting due to technical reasons,” a politburo member of the party, Dharmendra Bastola said. He added that the party is preparing to hold the meeting, being outside of the valley for the first time, during June last week.
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Bandh cripples life‚ entrepreneurs oppose it
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
DANG: Life was hit hard across the country today due to the general strike called by fringe parties including the Mohan Baidhya-led CPN-Maoist. These parties had enforced a nationwide bandh to protest the interim election government’s announcement that the second Constituent Assembly polls would be held on November 19. Vehicles were vandalised in various districts for defying the bandh. A bus and two trucks were vandalised in Dang headquarters Ghorahi. A private car was vandalised at Gorkha’s Haramtari. Bandh enforcers vandalised a car belonging to Yubaraj Shrestha at Kalimatitole, Gorkha. Both long and short route vehicles stayed off the road on the Tribhuvan and Prithvi highways. From early morning, cadres of the agitating fringe parties descended on the street at Dhading to enforce the bandh.
The general shutdown threw life out of gear at Udayapur, Morang, Sarlahi, Bara, Morang, Sunsari, Bhojpur, Janakpur, Mahottari, Makawanpur, Chitwan, among other districts. Ambulances and vehicles belonging to diplomatic missions and the press, however, plied the roads without obstruction. Educational institutes, major market places, and factories remained closed due to the bandh. Businessmen and entrepreneurs defied the bandh in Diktel in response to vandalism and force used by the bandh organisers. They opened hotels and shops and drew the attention of the District Administration Office to the vandalism and sought security.
Educational institutions, however, remained closed and vehicles stayed off the road. Meanwhile, police arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in vandalising hotels and shops in Diktel. Federal Socialist Party Khotang Joint Secretary Jiten Rai and CPN-Maoist-aligned All Nepal National Independent Students’ Union(Revolutionary) district member Babi Rai have been detained, police said. Meanwhile, the agitators vandalised five industries in Biratnagar causing loss of thousands of rupees.
Armed agitators vandalised MM Plastic, Leminal Ind Pvt Ltd, Rathi Adhesive, Shreya Print and Pack, Udaya Shree Udhyog. Suyash Pyakurel, Director at MM Plastic said that a mob of 60 to 70 persons broke into the locked gate and damaged the industry. Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Morang chapter, condemned the attacks on the industry, assault and mistreatment of workers and entrepreneurs in a statement today. FNCCI Morang chapter has also urged the government, agitating groups, and political parties not to target industries, education and health sectors, and other essential areas just for getting their demands met, but to look for other options. The agitators smashed a bus belonging to People’s Multiple Health Institute, Biratnagar and assaulted the bus driver for defying the strike.
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Dahal betrayed revolution, concur CPN-Maoist cadres
KATHMANDU, June 16: Sudha Regmi, who spent her prime years in police and army detention in Dang during the insurgency, was at the mass meet held by CPN-Maoist at Baneshwar held after the conclusion of the Nepal banda called by the 42-party alliance led by the party on Sunday. Reviewing the one-year period following the split with UCPN (Maoist), Sudha, who is a CPN-Maoist cadre now, said Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had betrayed the people´s revolution. Meanwhile, CPN-Maoist Secretary Netra Bikram Chand was addressing the gathering. He said the Khil Raj Regmi-led government and the four major parties had invited confrontation by announcing date for fresh Constituent Assembly election and that his party was prepared to retaliate. However, Sudha was not happy with the achievement of the party in the one year after split.
“We could have done a lot within a year. Nevertheless, the way ahead for us is clear now,” Regmi told Republica. She claimed that her party had been successful in informing the people about Dahal´s betrayal to the people´s revolution launched about one-and-a-half decades ago. Similarly, CPN-Maoist cadre Dambar Rawal, who was present at the mass meet, claimed that while the UCPN (Maoist) stooped low before foreign forces, CPN-Maoist safeguarded national interests and sovereignty.
 Justification of split
The seed of the party split was sown during the Balaju meeting just after the peace process began. The cadres had raised questions over the “dual character” of the party leadership. Leader Netra Bikram Chand had voiced the dissatisfactions of the cadres and countered the leadership by registering the new political line at the Kharipati plenum, which was led by Mohan Baidya. Baidya´s political line was crystallized during the Palungtar plenum leading to the party split last year.
After their general conventions, the two parties are heading in opposite directions. After the Hetauda general convention, the UCPN (Maoist) formally converted into a parliamentary party, while CPN-Maoist adopted the line of people´s revolt. “Firstly, we have proven that our party has become successful in safeguarding the revolutionary spirit after the mother party´s main leadership adopted a revisionist path and surrendered before the foreign forces,” Jhak Bahadur Malla, CPN-Maoist central committee member, told Republica. He also claimed that his party played a key role in thwarting projects like Upper Trishuli 3´A´ and the BIPPA agreement with India and handover of the Tribhuvan International Airport management to India, which were against the interests of the country.
UCPN (Maoist) leaders, however, have been blaming Baidya for the party split. They also accused the CPN-Maoist of not having concrete political programs. “All people and party cadres will hail CPN-Maoist if they succeed in justifying the party split. It is not justifiable now to wage another people´s war,” Suk Bahadur Roka Magar, UCPN (Maoist) central committee member told Republica. Cadres switching parties A year after the party split, leaders and cadres have been switching parties. “I think, the process will continue. There are honest leaders and cadres in the UCPN (Maoist) and not all our cadres are honest,” said Regmi.
After the party split, leaders including Krishna Dhwaj Khadka and Rekha Sharma returned to the UCPN (Maoist) from the CPN-Maoist. Party unity UPCN (Maoist) leaders have been claiming that there is a possibility of unity between the two parties saying the talks in this regard are on. However, cadres of the CPN-Maoist do not see any possibility of the party unity. “Party unity is possible only if Dahal abandons his revisionist stance and accepts our revolutionary party line,” said Parbati Rawal, a CPN-Maoist cadre.