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 Chand Led CPN Is Not Committed To Peaceful Politics Despite Signing Agreement With Government

Kathmandu, June 3, 2021: Three months after he signed a deal with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to raise demands in a peaceful manner, Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’, the General Secretary of the Communist Party Of Nepal, says his party is not committed to peaceful politics.

In an interview with Himalaya TV on Wednesday evening, the leader of the CPN said, “We did not say that we came to peaceful politics. It was just that we were ready to present our opinions peacefully.”

Biplav had formed a party after breaking ties with Mohan Baidya, a veteran Maoist leader, in November 2014. Then, it had resorted to violence such as extortion, abductions, bombings, and killings in the name of protest against the state.

In March 2019 the government had banned the party, forcing Biplav and other senior leaders to go underground. Police would subsequently arrest leaders and cadres of the Chand led CPN whenever they were found. However, in February this year, the party had expressed its interest in dialogues to raise its concerns and a three-point peace deal was signed in March.

But, Biplav in the Wednesday interview said the deal was just a readiness to put forward the opinions peacefully, but not joining peaceful politics.

“I think we should not classify politics as peaceful and violent. This understanding is erroneous,” he says, “While underground also, we were in peaceful politics.”

Source : https://english.onlinekhabar.com/no

Baidya Led CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Protests New State Budget

Kathmandu, June 2, 2021: The Mohan Baidya-led CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) has protested the budget brought by the government.

Issuing a press statement Wednesday, Baidya said, “The budget has further brokered Indian expansionism and US imperialism by emphasizing the implementation of the MCC project through mining and river products’ export and power transmission lines expansion against the country’s environment and national identity.”

He added that the working class had been completely deprived of the necessary salary, facilities and relief. “Overall, the budget is based on protection of the rights and interests of the middlemen and bureaucrats, the bourgeoisie and the feudal class,” the statement read.

“It is based on foreign reactionism, traditionalism, cheap populism and contrary to the public interest. Our party strongly opposes this kind of anti-national and anti-people budget.”

The CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) has urged the government to increase the scope of Covid-19 testing, provide free and accessible healthcare and make arrangements for immunization at the earliest and bring relief, rescue and unemployment allowance packages for the needy, poor and working-class people.

Similarly, the party has demanded the release of its leaders and cadres.