News from Nepal(continued)

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Maoist to revolt if no statute drafted on time: Badal

KATHMANDU: General Secretary of the UCPN-Maoist Ram Bahadur Thapa 'Badal' said the party will be forced to go for a popular revolt if a people's constitution was not drafted by completing the peace process.

Speaking at a programme in the capital organised by Chitwan-Kathmandu Republican Forum on Saturday, he said there was no alternative to completing the peace process and drafting the constitution as per the people's aspiration.

He urged all patriots, nationalists and republicans to unite for the cause of national sovereignty, saying that people's demands could not be met until the country was taken on a progressive course.

Party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was also present in the programme but stayed for few minutes citing his busy schedule.

On the occasion, Maoist central leaders Ishwori Prasad Dahal and Narayan Dahal and other leaders were also present.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Maoist+to+revolt+if+no+statu te+drafted+on+time%3A+Badal&NewsID=279720

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The Maoists could be capitulationists, or they might be smart.

Let's say that they topple the Katmandu government and installs the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Within one week, Katmandu could very well be occupied by the Indian army, which reinstates the previous Nepalese rulers.

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Hetauda industries back to life

HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
The industrialists took back the keys of the shut industries which they had earlier submitted to the district administration office seeking security

HETAUDA: Industries in Hetauda Industrial Area that had remained close for the past one week resumed operation from today. 

Industry workers had called a shutdown demanding pay hike since March 8, which had ground 65 industries to a halt. 

Hetauda Industry Organisation Chairman Rishiram Ghimire said the entrepreneurs resumed the industries after the agitating workers agreed to return to work without any preconditions. 

Ghimire informed that the industries would continue to operate as per a decision of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Nepal Industrial Area, including other related organisations. 

Ghimire reiterated that the entrepreneurs could not hike the pay and perks of the workers in the local level only.

However, according to Ghimire, they said they were ready to abide by any decision taken by the government over the issue. 

The industrialists took back the keys of the shut industries which they had earlier submitted to the district administration office seeking security. 

According to General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions’ Narayani Zone Vice Chairman Arjun Dhungel, the workers agreed to resume work at the request of the UCPN-Maoist-aligned All Nepal Trade Union Federation, CPN-UML-aligned GEFONT and Nepali Congress affiliated Trade Union Congress. However, Bishnu Rana, Chairman, All Nepal Industry Workers Association, Hetauda, informed that they will continue other form of protests till March 25. “But we won’t close the industries,” he said. 

Similarly, Prakash Paudel, Coordinator, Federation of All Nepal Workers’ Association, Makwanpur, informed that the workers have postponed their scheduled protests only for the time being. “We have postponed the protests as we got the information from the centre that there would be an agreement within a week,” said Poudel. He also warned of intensifying the protests if the entrepreneurs did not hike their pay and other facilities.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=280149

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'UML ready to review 7-point deal if NC agrees to join govt'

CPN (UML) leader Pradip Gyawali on Monday revealed that efforts are on to bring the Nepali Congress in the UML-Maoist coalition government and expressed optimism that the ongoing discussions with the second largest party in the Constituent Assembly to that end will bring about positive results.

Speaking at a press meet organized in the capital today afternoon, the former minister also claimed that UML will even be ready to amend certain clauses of the seven-point agreement signed with UCPN (Maoist) if Nepali Congress (NC) agrees to join the government.

Gyawali even said that the seven-point agreement was signed with the Maoists to pave the way for the formation of new government and that it should be viewed in that context only and nothing further than that.

Clarifying that his party UML is against any kind of polarization of power, he said that conspiracies are on to polarize the national politics by spreading the fear of leftist polarization in the country.

He urged NC to remain aware of these kinds of conspiracies and end polarization of national politics by joining the current government.

http://nepalnews.com/archive/2011/mar/mar21/news11.php

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http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/in...&news_id=29147

13 Mar 2011

Big money behind Maoist union split
REPUBLICA
KATHMANDU, March 13: The Maoist trade union, which is perhaps the most important organization of the party for the much-needed money and muscle, formally split into three factions on Saturday, with the rebel union leader Badri Bajgain declaring to have dissolved the existing 25 branches of the union and formed new ones.

"We held a meeting in the presence of party secretary CP Gajurel and formed 25 branches of the union," Vice-chairman of the Maoist-aligned All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF), Badri Bajgain told Republica.


Bajgain is close to party Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, while the incumbent chief Saligram Jammakattel is close to party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

On Friday, the union´s Assistant General Secretary Lal Dhwaj Nembang, who is close to Vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai, had also declared to have formed a separate 125-member union leadership. Previously, Jammakattel had declared to have sacked Bajgain and asked for written clarification of Nembang for breaching the party discipline.

The party leadership seems hopeless in the face of deepening crisis in the organization, though party sources say the leaders are backing their respective factions.

Two weeks back, the party had decided to dissolve all the parallel committees, downsize the current ANTUF central committee, headed by Jammakattel, from 261 members to 93 members with the mandate of holding a national convention for a new leadership. But Nembang and Bajgain declined to accept the leadership of Jammakattel for holding the national convention, while the latter also refused to downsize the ANTUF.

Union leaders admit that the amount of money the union has been collecting as "donations" is behind the current intra-organizational crisis. "I have been demanding action against Jammakattel for two years, but my voice has only fallen on deaf years," said Bajgain.

There are around a dozen complaints against Jammakattel in the party. According to sources, however, Dahal doesn´t want to take action against Jammakattel as the latter is his "most reliable fund-raiser." The union chief is said to have collected Rs 30 million to buy the votes of the lawmakers in favor of Dahal when the latter was a prime ministerial candidate.

"Another reason why Dahal in not in a mood to sack the union chief is because he is the man who can thwart the influence of Baidya and Bhattarai camps in the union," says a Maoist central committee (CC) member.

The casinos in Kathmandu are another source of income for the union. Sources say the union raises more than Rs 100,000 from each of the eight casinos here. "The union gives protection to the casinos and the casino owners pay handsome amount to the union leaders for that," says a junior leader of the union.

And the union also raises sufficient amount of money from the houses around bus stations which are rented out.

The Bajgain and Nembang factions have also accused Jammakattel of sellout. "The union calls a strike at workplace and suddenly calls it off without getting its demands fulfilled. The reason is that the leadership receives money from the owners," says a senior union leader adding that the senior union leaders also join hands with the industrialists in sacking the employees.

The Maoist leadership had long been avoiding the intra-organization conflict in the union, and when it finally took a decision two weeks ago to resolve the conflict, none of the union leaders accepted the decision. "We have been told that the party will soon take a decision," said Bajgain.

Published on 2011-03-13 02:00:44

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http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/03/23/...nt/331365.html

23 March 2011

Maoist intra-union war tussle turns violent

EKANTIPUR REPORT

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KATHMANDU, MAR 23 - Maoist trade unionists close to Vice-chairman Babu Ram Bhattarai have said they have been receiving death threats from the establishment faction led by Shalik Ram Jammarkattel.

Organising a press meet on Wednesday, they claimed the Jammarkattel faction, which has been running the All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF) unilaterally, had been ousting them from the organisation just for speaking against monopoly. “Jammarkattel has been threatening to sack and attack us physically if we did not become a part of his faction,” Hom Subedi, chairman of All Nepal Hotel and Restaurant Trade Union (ANHRTU), Everest Hotel Chapter, said. He added Jammarkattel had lost his grip in five star hotels in Kathmandu where most of the leaders elected recently are Bhattarai loyalists.

“Though I was elected the chairman with a majority, Jammarkattel's hired gangsters have been preventing me from entering the hotel,” said Mukti Dahal, chairman of ANHRTU Hyatt Regency Chapter. The Bhattarai faction has also said the establishment has threatened its members not to perform their duties. “I was held hostage for four hours today (Wednesday),” Narayan Prasad Kharel, a labour leader, said. He has been warned to leave the Bhattarai faction.

The ANTUF split into three factions two weeks ago, supporting UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice Chairmen Bhattarai and Mohan Baidya.
Posted on: 2011-03-23 11:47

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Maoist leader Bhattarai slams rumour of party division

DOLAKHA: Vice-chairman of the UCPN-Maoist, Dr Baburam Bhattarai has urged leaders and cadres of his party to remain alert against efforts being made to tarnish the image of the party by spreading the rumour of division in the party.

Addressing the fourth anniversary function of Hamro Radio 103.4 Megahertz FM at Charikot on Wednesday, he said a conspiracy is being hatched to push back Nepal into conflict by foiling the peace and constitution making process.

The country would have to face another disaster if the new Constitution is not promulgated within May 28, he warned.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=281995

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From a longer article;

What does the dissolution of the three parallel Maoist trade unions mean? It means that the situation had become untenable in the eyes of the public, even if the absurdity of three separate unions belonging to the one mother party was simply a reflection of the seemingly irreconcilable three-way split in the highest echelons of the not quite United Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist.

Whoever is now chosen to lead a reformed, united trade union, it will not settle the larger question of whether the largest party in the country can keep itself from falling apart. Whatever the driving forces – external and internal manipulation, ideological schisms, egoism, media sensationalism – even the most diehard Maoist supporter is compelled to concede that the Maoist party has a serious internal problem on its hands. Indeed, most such diehard supporters, the cadre, have already chosen sides. Those whose maintain that every communist party's revolutionary spirit derives from the ferment of debate, and that UCPN (Maoist) is no different, is either lying or blinkered to the realities of revolutionary communism. It is as much wishful thinking as that indulged in by of those who do wish to see the Maoists split. [...]

http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/...ditorial/18086

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Constitution only after PLA integration: Koirala

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala has stressed that the task of constitution drafting should be accomplished only after the integration, rehabilitation and management of the Maoist combatants.

At a greetings exchange and tea reception organised here on Tuesday by Technical Students Council-Nepal on the occasion of the founding day of Nepal Students’ Union, NC President Koirala said the UCPN-Maoist should come to the political mainstream of democracy to bring the ongoing peace process to logical conclusion and promulgate a new constitution.

The transitional period will not be ended till the restoration of lasting peace in the country, he added.

http://thehimalayantimes.com/rssRefe...&NewsID=284578

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Maoist CC divided over two documents

KATHMANDU: The Central Committee of UCPN-Maoist is divided over the separate political documents of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice Chairman Mohan Baidya.

In the CC meeting on Saturday, 11 CC members put forth their opinions on the proposed tactical line of the party.

Dahal's supporters pointed out shortcomings on Baidya's document saying it lacked progression, while the CC members close to Baidya flayed the chairman's proposal saying that it leads to surrender.

Notwithstanding his differences with Dahal, another Vice Chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai welcomed the former's proposal for stressing on peace and constitution by keeping aside the rhetorical people's revolt.

The meeting will resume tomorrow.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=285190

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http://www.telegraphnepal.com/headli...-revolutionary

April 30, 2011 6:59 AM

Prachanda: The Counter Revolutionary

Telegraph Nepal

“It is not unnatural for Comrade Kiran (Mohan Baidya) to suspect the new line adopted by our party. Whenever the party takes a new decision at every historical opportunities, such suspicions have been raised and there has been intense internal struggle in our party and it has led the party to a near to split kind of situation. Beginning 1990, as I took over we have taken concrete decisions in every historical opportunities…at this juncture I believe that peace and constitution is needed most. My proposal is not in contradiction to the decision of the extended plenum meeting at Palungtar. There is no need to suspect my intent. I would like to clearly state that is there is no possibility of and the environment is also not favorable for a revolt”.

These are the words of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Unified Maoists Party made at the party steering committee meeting, Thursday April 28, 2011.

In reply said Vice Chairman Mohan Baidya Kiran, Friday April 29, 2011:

“The central committee meeting held immediately after the Palungtar meeting had taken three decisions-Transformation, Unity and Revolt. Neither there has been transformation, nor unity nor have we even prepared for a revolt. The decision was endorsed by seven thousand cadres, yet we had problems in the implementation…Chairman Prachanda’s proposal is not the continuation of Palungtar meeting. The proposal has been forwarded to kill the mandate of Palungtar meeting. It has come at best to shift the mandate of the meeting. Our Chairman is a ‘middle man’—madhyapanthi and it has been on the contant increase. Kiran’s proposal to endorse Palungtar mandate and Prachanda’s to reject it cannot become one. We could instead withdraw our respective proposals and discuss…we used to take Chairman as an icon of the revolution…I have begun feeling that his standing has been gradually slipping away. In the hasty manner Chairman has brought up the matter, I feel that small counterrevolutions of lesser magnitudes are taking place. While in the peace process, we have made several wrong decisions which have weakened the party unity. Those who believe in Maoism feel that they are being gradually sidelined. These suspicions have pushed the party unity on the verge of split”.

Now, as the disputes heat up among Maoist leaders over which Party factions are allocated what ministerial positions in government, with the Baidya faction feeling sidelined, the internal Party rivalry turns to censorship;

http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/in...&news_id=31027

7 May 2011

Dahal faction seizes pro Baidya magazine
REPUBLICA
KATHMANDU, May 7: The ongoing intra-party conflict within the UCPN (Maoist) has scaled a new height after the faction led by Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal seized 2,000 copies of Nayan Koshi -- a monthly magazine published by faction close to Mohan Baidya -- from the market for allegedly publishing an editorial that is against the party line.

Editor of the magazine Indra Rawat told Republica that the Dahal faction seized the magazines from Bhugol Park and Sinamangal in Kathmandu.

“We have concrete information that of the 2,000 copies, 600 copies were seized from the Bhugol Park and another 1,400 copies from Singamangal by party cadres close to Dahal faction,” Rawat said.

Rawat accused Kirat state in-charge Gopal Kirati from the Dahal faction of violating press freedom by seizing the magazines.

When contacted, Kirati defended his decision to seize the magazines. “How can the editor appointed by the party take an editorial line that is against the party´s official line of peace and constitution,” he questioned.

“The editor is free to run news and articles that are in favor of the political line floated by Kiran [Mohan Baidya] but the editorial should embrace the party´s official line,” he argued.

Rawat however refuted the allegations and said the editorial only pressed for revision in the party´s official line. He also vowed to reprint the magazine if he doesn´t get the seized copies within 2-3 days.

However, Kirati warned that the Kirat State Committee would disown the magazine if the editorial is reprinted.

Published on 2011-05-07 01:30:11

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Transportation services‚ industries‚ marketplaces remain shut • Bandh largely peaceful

2011-05-13 11:40 PM

HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE

KATHMANDU: Though the nationwide general strike today called by Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities affected normal life in the Capital and across the country, the daylong bandh was largely peaceful. 

Brushing aside repeated request from business community, international communities and human rights organisations to call off the strike, NEFIN’s National Front of Indigenous Nationalities’ Movement had enforced the strike to press the government and political parties for ‘timely promulgation of the primary draft of the new constitution incorporating the rights of indigenous nationalities’.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=287853

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UCPN-M proposes separate PLA mechanism

A meeting of Maoist office-bearers held at party Chairman Prachanda´s residence in Naya Bazaar on Saturday decided to float this proposal.

KATHMANDU: The Unified CPN-Maoist has proposed formation of a separate mechanism of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fighters.

A meeting of Maoist office-bearers held at party Chairman Prachanda’s residence in Naya Bazaar on Saturday decided to float this proposal.

Talking to reporters after the meeting, Maoist Vice-Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha said the new proposal was proposed in line with the party’s practical earlier publicised policy to make a joint security mechanism of all security bodies.

The meeting decided to hold talks with other parties regarding the modality of army integration. It also reviewed progress made by the Special Committee formed for the integration, rehabilitation and supervision of PLA combatants.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...sID=287884&a=3

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http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=287910
14 May 2011

Maoist trade unionist held on attempted murder charge

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SABIN CHANDRA ACHARYA
"Rai was taken into the custody based on a complaint lodged by Dangol"

KATHMANDU: Police on Saturday arrested Kalpadeep Rai, a leader of UCPN-Maoist’s All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF), on charge of attempted of murder of a member of the rival faction in the trade union. Deployed from the Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka, security personnel in plainclothes raided Rai’s house in Lamatar in Lalitpur to make the arrest.

Rai is the president of Casino Anna Chapter of ANTUF that lends support to Saligram Jamakattel, who is the leader of faction close to Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

A group of about 15 people led by Rai had thrashed Gyan Man Dangol 9 and inflicted injuries on him at Jamal in the Capital on May 9.

Dangol is the treasurer of ANTUF faction close to Maoist Vice Chair Dr Baburam Bhattarai at the Casino.

Police said Rai was taken into the custody based on a complaint lodged by Dangol.

The two factions were at loggerheads after the mother party decided to suspend Rai along with two others—Nani Kaji Basnet and Kishor Khatri—for three months citing their involvement in anti-party activities.

The Maoist party had dissolved ANTUF solely led by Jamakattel and mandated party secretary Posta Bahadur Bogati to hold the national conference to elect a new leadership in the wake of growing intra-organisational crisis and clashes last month.

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Maoist chair abruptly leaves for Bangkok

KATHMANDU: At the time major political parties have intensified talks to discuss the extension of Constituent Assembly term, UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal abruptly left for Thailand on Sunday evening.



Though the purpose of his been kept secret, a source close to his party claimed that Dahal is set to take part in a progamme organised by the Asia Pacific Exchange Cooperation Foundation in Bangkok.

Dahal is accompanied by his son Prakash.

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=288041

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[FONT=Times New Roman]Party cadre threatens Bhattarai[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Is rift within culminating in a menace? [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]KATHMANDU: Dispute within the Unified CPN-Maoist has reached a new height — top leaders of the party have begun receiving threats from their own cadres. Maoist leaders now feel insecure from their own activists who otherwise would be ready to sacrifice their lives during the people’s war.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Maoist Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai today became a victim. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Bhattarai received threats from one of the factions of the party-affiliated trade union for ‘forcing its leader to languish behind bars’.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]With three-cornered battle going on in the party with each faction led by party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Senior Vice Chairman Mohan Baidhya and Vice Chairman Bhattarai, the party’s trade union — All Nepal Trade Union Federation, now dissolved in the wake of growing clashes among union cadres — too is divided into three. According to a supporter of Bhattarai, an ANTUF central leader today threatened to attack Bhattarai for ‘assisting in the arrest of Kalpadip Rai, president of the ANTUF Casino Anna chapter’. Rai, who along with his associates had attacked a pro-Bhattarai trade union leader Gyanman Dangol in Jamal on May 9, was arrested by police on Saturday on attempt to murder charge. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]The Bhattarai supporter said Bhattarai had reached the party headquarters to attend a meeting with Indian journalists, who were in Kathmandu, when he was subjected to the threat.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]ANTUF leader Janak Bartaula had reportedly rang up his associates and told them ‘cut Bhattarai down to size’. Maoist security personnel then had restrained Bartaula, who is a bouncer at Tara Casino, from ordering his associates in that manner.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]But pro-Dahal workers refuted the allegations, claiming Bartaula did not say anything of that sort. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]The ANTUF leaders, including Bartaula, later left their office in Paris Danda following a meeting with former ANTUF president Saligram Jammakattel, who is said to be close to Dahal.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Bhattarai has sounded General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa and Home Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara about the incident.[/FONT]

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=288243

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Death threat exposes chasm among Nepal Maoists

(ians) Kathmandu, May 17

After battling the government for 10 years, nepal's former maoist guerrillas are now fighting among themselves with assaults and death threats exposing the growing chasm between the top leaders ahead of a deep constitutional crisis.


The deputy chief of the once underground party, former finance minister baburam bhattarai, hit the headlines tuesday after allegedly receiving death threats from a party trade union activist loyal to maoist chief pushpa kamal dahal prachanda.


Bhattarai, who had been once demoted in the past for his differences with prachanda, has registered complaints with maoist home minister krishna bahadur mahara and other party leaders after a maoist trade unionist reportedly threatened him with death for having stepped into a row between different factions of the maoist trade union.


The maoist dirty linen began to be washed in public like never before this month with the trade union faction loyal to prachanda attacking and injuring a unionist supporting bhattarai.


The maoist deputy pressured police into arresting the alleged attacker, which triggered the death threat.


This is a sequel to the party becoming divided three ways, with prachanda at loggerheads with his two deputies, bhattarai as well as mohan vaidya.
Regarding bhattarai as the main challenge to his returning to power as prime minister, prachanda this year colluded with his once rival, communist party chief jhala nath khanal, to help the latter win the prime ministerial election and keep bhattarai out.


Since then, following the policy of divide and rule, prachanda has been alternately siding with the two deputies to keep his grip on the party leadership.


Taking their cue from the warring leaders, the maoist cadre is also split three ways now.


The once powerful maoist trade union is now split into three camps, with frequent ugly scenes.


The new crisis in the party, that is the largest following the last election in 2008, comes even as nepal is hurtling towards a constitutional deadline with no chance of meeting it.


The ruling parties have to promulgate a new constitution by may 28. However, khanal has already expressed his inability to deliver and is now seeking the support of the other parties to extend the deadline by one year.


The floundering prime minister needs the approval of two-thirds of the mps in the 601-seat house.


The main opposition party, the nepali congress, is opposing an unconditional extension and is seeking the support of the smaller parties to defeat khanal's proposal in parliament.


Khanal's own party men are divided with some calling for his ouster. Now with the maoists also at war among themselves, bhattarai is calling for khanal's exit and the formation of an all-party government.


The new battle of the ballot is likely to be held on may 26.

http://mangalorean.com/news.php?news...&newsid=239154

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http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/05/17/...at/334150.html

17 May 2011

Maoists stage demo against death threat

EKANTIPUR REPORT

KATHMANDU, MAY 17 -

The UCPN (Maoist) cadres on Tuesday drew attention of the party towards the death threat issued against party Vice Chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai.

The party cadres and leaders, supporting Bhattarai, staged a demonstration for an hour at the party headquarters in Perishdada today demanding security for the vice chair and actions against those who issued death threat.

A trade union leader close to Salikram Jammakattel, the immediate past president of All Nepal Trade union Federation (ANTUF), had reportedly threatened to “finish off” Maoist Vice Chairman Bhattarai.

Janak Bartola, a worker of Hyatt Regency Hotel, in the telephone conversation, allegedly told an unknown person that they would “kill” Bhattarai within four to five days.

The security guards later informed Bhattarai about the conversation. Soon Bhattarai telephoned Home Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara and party General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa demanding action against Bartola. However, Jammakattel rebuffed the charge and said it was baseless.

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http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/05/17/...ma/334156.html

17 May 2011

Bhattarai murder-plot hatched at Paris Danda: Sharma

EKANTIPUR REPORT

Dinanath Sharma
UCPN (Maoist) Spokesperson Dinanath Sharma

KATHMANDU, MAY 17 -

UCPN (Maoist) Spokesperson Dinanath Sharma has claimed it has been revealed that the alleged plot to murder Maoist Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai was hatched at the party head-office in Paris Danda.

"The party has been shocked and alerted by the revelation that the conspiracy to execute party Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai was being plotted within the premises of the party central office in Paris Danda," read a press statement released by Sharma.

"First of all, the party heavily condemns such a conspiratorial exercise. Furthermore, the party would like to thank the PLA combatants and security personnel of Vice Chairman Bhattarai for information the leadership about it on time," the statement further read.

Sharma, in the press statement, has said that the increasing anarchical, undisciplined and ruckus behaviour in recent times has raised the suspicion whether the infiltration of reactionaries has reached a dangerous level.

It is the responsibility of the party to investigae those involved in the plot and bring them to justice, the statemend added.

Media had publicised that a Maoist trade union cadre identified as Janak Bartaula had called people from his cell-phone to kill Bhattarai on Monday.

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Now the gloves are off, maybe the Party boss is looking for some discrete help in "neutralising" the loose cannons in the Party?...

http://www.telegraphnepal.com/headli...ratives:-media

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Nepal Maoist Chief Dahal in Bangkok, may meet Indian Intelligence operatives: Media

Telegraph Nepal

Without prior information Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Unified Maoists’ Party accompanied by his heir apparent Prakash Dahal headed mysteriously to Bangkok, Sunday May 15, 2011.

Reports have it that Dahal had made a last minute telephone call to vice chairman Babu Ram Bhattarai informing that he was heading to the capital of Thailand to attend a meeting of Asia Pacific Exchange Cooperation Foundation.

Dahal currently is the vice chairman of the Foundation.

Dahal took a Thai Airways flight to Bangkok at 2:00 PM.

However, reports confirm that no such meeting of the China based foundation has been set in Bangkok.

The Bangkok trip is thus definitely a mysterious one.

It is also reported that Dahal will hold a meeting with expatriate Nepalis.

Flimsy pretexts readymade.

The Maoists’ Chairman is likely to meet India’s intelligence operatives in Bangkok. The meeting has been planned by the so-called India’s Nepal expert S.D. Muni, writes one of the leading national dailies.

“Nepal’s ambassador to Thailand Nabinprakash Jung Shah who had arrived at the Airport to greet the Maoists chief was told to return to the Embassy. It has also been kept a guarded secret in which hotel Dahal is currently residing”.

A mystery becomes more mysterious.

According to Rajdhani Daily, “Dahal while in Bangkok will hold discussions with the Indian officials over the issue of extension of CA tenure, Peace Process and other issues related to Constitution Drafting.”

In his last mysterious trip to Singapore, March 16, 2011, which was made under the pretext of a similar meeting with the members of the Foundation, Dahal had met three intelligence operatives working under India’s Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh. Before Singapore, Dahal had made a similar trip to Malaysia and London.

Dahal prefers to fly abroad. Nepal perhaps is not a suitable country for him.

It has also been reported that Dahal will return home today but it is likely that he will be back only on Tuesday.

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Community relations...

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Frenzied+PLA+fighters+run+am ok+in+Chulachuli&NewsID=288361

18 May 2011

Frenzied PLA fighters run amok in Chulachuli

• Batter local youth brutally • Whisk injured off to cantonment • Release them next day
Added At: 2011-05-18 12:10 AM
Last Updated At: 2011-05-18 12:10 AM
ROHIT KUMAR LUITEL
DAMAK: Maoist fighters billeted in the First Division Cantonment in Chulachuli of Ilam on Monday night went berserk and beat up villagers of Kamaljhoda of Chulachuli to within an inch of their life.

According to locals, a group of more than 50 Maoist fighters, who had come out of
the cantonment, also vandalised six houses. After the rampage, the combatants took injured Chhabi Subba, Man Bahadur Phago, Birat Limbu, Dipendra Tumba and Bishal Sunuwar, forcefully to cantonment, said locals.

Another injured Dik Bahadur Subba, who has received a serious injury on his head, has been rushed to Neuro Hospital in Biratnagar.

Stricken villagers wailed throughout the night as combatants wielded power and pounced on the youth in front of their families.

According to Chhabi’s mother Lilamaya, the combatants barged into her house and started thrashing both of her sons all of a sudden. “They hauled my sons out in the yard and brandished guns when me and my sister-in-law asked them to stop,” said Lilamaya. “They would sprinkle water on my sons when they fell unconscious and thrash them again.”

Lilamaya added that after assaulting her sons brutally, the combatants had taken Chhabi, who had passed out by then, towards the south. “I sent Dik Bahadur, who was unable to speak, to hospital for treatment.” Another local Kamala Rai said the combatants went on the rampage and vandalised houses as they uttered obnoxious words. “We managed to hide under a cot with our children,” said Kamala.

Indra Kumari Sunuwar, who had come to the cantonment to visit her injured son Bishal, said her son was beaten black and blue.

Suman Thamsuhang, a fifth grader who was also injured during the assault, said the combatants had hit him with a gun and rods.

A day after the Maoist fighters went berserk, organising a press meet in the division headquarters today, cantonment’s military secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa said a rescue team that was sent to the village after learning about the incident had brought the injured to the cantonment for treatment. Thapa admitted that some fighters were out of the cantonment on Monday night ‘for a few hours’ but tried to downplay the incident saying ‘they were not carrying guns, khukuris and spears as claimed by the villagers’.

The villagers have surmised that the violent attack by combatants on local youth was aimed at settling a score with the latter. According to the villagers, the local youth on May 14 had assaulted some combatants during a PLA fighter Chandra Bahadur Rai’s marriage with a local girl. PLA combatants Nawaraj Khatri and Prakash Rai were injured in the incident. A day after, the combatants had lodged a complaint against Dhurba Lawoti, Buddha Phago, Jeevan Tumbapo, Nayan Phago and Dik Bahadur Subba.

Former military secretary Naresh told reporters that the youth had assaulted some combatants. “The youth didn’t turn up at Damak police for settling the dispute on Monday,” he said. All the injured returned home from cantonments today afternoon.

Meanwhile, issuing a press statement, Ilam-Kathmandu liaison committee of the Nepali Congress today demanded that the government take strict action against the combatants and provide compensation to the victims.



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http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/ful...&NewsID=288360

18 May 2011

´We were thrashed all the way to camp´

Added At: 2011-05-18 12:07 AM

Last Updated At: 2011-05-18 12:07 AM


BISHAL SUNUWAR

CHULACHULI: I was invited at Dipendra Tumba's house on Monday night. A brief chitchat followed the dinner and then we went to the bed at around 10pm.

But suddenly we heard some sound, which later approached our doors. Dipendra responded to the knock, which was mixed with shouts like 'bring them out, bring them out'. No sooner had Dipendra opened the door than a group of youth pounced on us and started beating us with rods and butts of guns.

They dragged me out of the room and thrashed me. They hit me on my head; I was soon soaked with the blood. There were about 50-60 of them. I almost lost consciousness but they would not stop beating me. I started crying, but it seems, it provoked them more. I could see that some of them were assaulting Dipendra. From 11pm to 1am their brutality continued and they dragged us to the cantonment and kept on assaulting us.

As they reached the gate of the camp, one of them punched me hard which followed a question: "Weren't you the one present in the marriage?" I said I wasn't but, I now realise, their question didn't demand the answer. When we were dumped in a room, I regained my sight and I spotted some other local youth from my village there. Their condition was no better; with faces swollen and bruises all over. A Maoist fighter came and gave us a tablet saying it was a hospital. Some other combatants applied a bandage to my head.

I was so scared that I could not sleep the whole night. They gave us food at 11am the next day (on Tuesday) but I had no appetite. I was worried that they would confine us into that room again. A little later, I saw my mother. She had brought some clothes for me. I changed. At around 3pm, they left us at the gate of the camp. After reaching my village, I came to know that they had released us from the eastern gate of the camp while they had called our relatives, villagers, human rights activists and mediapersons at the western gate.

I was later sent to a hospital. I had done nothing against them. I am innocent but they beat me up mercilessly. This is injustice. My wounds will heal, but what about the pain they have inflicted on me?

(As told to Rohit Kumar Luitel)

[Ret]

After my speculation earlier about Prachanda seeking Indian aid now to "neutralise" Party rivals - reports say the prevailing paranoia in the Party is reopening old wounds for Baidya about claims of similar tricks in the past;

http://www.telegraphnepal.com/headli...rrest-in-india

Nepal Maoists party likely to split, Dahal plotted Baidya’s arrest in India

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Telegraph Nepal

Senior Vice Chairman of Nepal Communist Party Unified Maoist Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ has claimed that it was Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda who had plotted arrest of some of the party top hats while being in Indian exile.

This Baidya claimed at the ongoing secret meeting of his panel held somewhere in Baneshwor-Kathmandu, claims one of the leading daily news papers.

Hilarious revelation. Better late than never.

Including Baidya, Secretary C.P. Gajurel, Kul Prasad K.C. and Matrika Yadav were mysteriously arrested by the Indian police while in exile just ahead of the extended plenum meeting of party’s central committee held in Chunbang at the fag-end of the peoples’ revolt.

To recall, Baidya while on his way to an eye hospital in Siliguri was all of a sudden arrested by the local Indian police. Similarly, C.P. Gajurel was arrested at Chennai Airport for possessing a fake passport. Matrika Yadav, Suresh Aley Magar and K.C. were arrested from New Delhi.

Later Matrika and Magar were deported to Nepal during the Royal regime.

Prior to the arrest of the selected Maoists’ leaders in India, another vice chairman Babu Ram Bhattarai, Dina Nath Sharma, Hisila Yami and others were kept under detention by the Dahal panel.

Later the Indian establishment through India’s so-called Nepal expert S.D. Muni and his ilk convinced Dahal to release Babu Ram Bhattarai and his supporters from the party detention.

India’s foreign secretary then Shyam Saran too had played a key role.

Immediately after Bhattarai’s release, the spree of arrest took place in India, which allowed Dahal to swiftly manage to switch from the Revolt line to DemocraticRepublican line envisioned by Bhattarai. With Baidya arrested, Bhattarai managed to convince Dahal of his line through the effective use of the Indian machination.

The Rajdhani Daily, May 19, 2011 adds, it was after the party became a part of the peace process the leaders who were detained by India were released.

Thus a republican order appears to have been imposed on Nepal by the Indian regime through the kind courtesy of Bhattarai.

“Chairman Prachanda plotted our arrest (Baidya and C.P. Gajurel) in India and got the Democratic Republican line passed by the Chunbang meet”, Baidya is quoted as saying by a central committee member present at the secret meeting.

“We need to be very cautious and take our steps carefully because Prachanda is a person who could go to any extent”, Baidya is further quoted.

Is Prachanda so dangerous then? When Baidya says so then let’s believe his explanations.

Baidya also instructed his men to remain ever vigilant because Prachanda was in a mission to finish them.

Baidya followers from various parts of the country have been invited to the secret meeting.

Senior leader Dev Gurung and other leaders such as Netra Bikram Chand and politburo members Pampha Bhusal and Dharemendra Bastola are also some of the participations of the meeting.

This perhaps speaks of the “internal” state of the Maoists party as of now.

“During the revolt, Prachanda feared that if Comrade Badal (General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa) led front continued to succeed in the attack on state forces, Badal would be powerful enough to capture the party leadership. Thus Prachanda manufactured stories linking Comrade Badal with Comrade Ms. Pampha Bhusal. Similarly, Prachanda is also blaming Comrade Gaurav (Gajurel) of being influenced by the Europeans”, Baidya also said.

Netra Bikram Chand informed at the meeting that Dahal had requested him not to take on to the course of party split until May 28, 2011.

“I told him that if differences persist it is better to split the party to preserve ideology”, Chand added.

“Prachanda fears party split but he is planning to capture the party headquarters if that eventuality takes a shape”, Chand revealed at the meeting.

He also held that secret meetings are on in Prachanda’s camp not to allow us to capture the party headquarters.

Another leader however, says that the possibility of party split is remote in the present context.

“We prefer to create another party within the party itself but do not favor a vertical split”, Rajdhani quotes the leader as saying.

In the secret meeting, senior leader Dev Gurung expressed that Comrade Prachanda at one instance had kept him in the dark and misled him to get the UML-NC agenda approved by the constitutional committee.

The meeting reports the Rajdhani daily, has also devised an intelligence mechanism under the leadership of Netra Bikram Chand that will collect information from the grass root and pass it on to the central leadership.

Analysts expect some more thrilling stories in the days ahead. Every height has a fall, it has rightly been said.