Nepal - CPN-Maoist to struggle for ‘people’s govt’

KATHMANDU, Feb 6. : The agitating CPN-Maoist has formed United People´s Committee (UPC) aiming to launch a struggle for the establishment of “peoples´ government”. UPC will launch protests for people´s constitution and nationalism after mid-March. A meeting of sister wings held at the party headquarters in Buddhanagar on Thursday appointed party secretary Dev Gurung as the coordinator of the committee.
The committee comprises nearly 150 members comprising head of the party´s sister wings, party politburo member and head of ethnic, gender and other fronts of the party. “The long-term vision of the committee is to establish peoples´ government,” said a leader participating in the meeting. The party during the insurgency had run a parallel government. Party leaders said that they will not revive the same structure but that their aim would remain very much the same. “The committee will prepare a protest program for people´s constitution and anti-nationalist agreements on resources,” Gurung told with Republica.
CPN-Maoist would make public its protest programs on March 1, according to its leaders. The party will soon call a central committee meeting to finalize the protest program and the date for the party´s national convention. The party has also decided to celebrate “people´s war” day on February 13. The party would announce its protest programs at the people´s war celebrations.