Naxalites kill 13 policemen in India

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 17 Feb: Hundreds of Naxlites, India’s Maoists, attacked six police compounds in the state of Orissa Friday and killed 13 policemen, reports from the state said.
Eleven policemen were also wounded, three seriously,
In one of the biggest, boldest and bloodiest attacks against state security agencies, Naxalites also killed a civilian guard and decamped with at least 1,000 pistols.
Four police stations, a training academy and an armory were run-over.
Like Nepal’s Maoists, Naxalites decamped wit seized weapons in a hijacked bus.
The Indian federal government has conceded the Maoist rebellion is worst that insurgencies in Kashmir and the northeast states .and refuses to negotiate with Naxalites.
At the same time, New Delhi not only sheltered Nepal’s Maoists but also helped negotiate a nine-point New Delhi accord between them and seven parliamentary parties
India is also stifling Nepal Army with vital supplies of arms and ammunition objecting to alternate supplies from China while pushing the formal integration of the former combatants with state security agencies in double dealing.
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Koirala now confronts country’s division instead of elections

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 17 Feb: Instead of conducting twice-promised constituent assembly elections, Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is confronted with saving the unity of Nepal forged 238 years ago by King Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great.
Koirala Saturday rejected any demand from the south that will split the hills in the north and the plains in the south of Nepal by saying he won’t meet demands for self-determination and autonomy.
Without mention India by name, he said in Biratnagar he will reject demands even from the powerful.
"The demands for self-determination and announcement for entire Madesh not acceptable," he said.
Three parties from the terai have formed a front demanding six points, including a one province for Madesh.
The front formed a three-member negotiating team with government and it includes: Anil Kumar Jha of NSP (Mahoto), Ratneswor Kayastha of MJR and Mahendra Prasad Yadav of Terai Madesh Loktantrik Party (TMLP).
Koirala received another setback when the NSP (D) decided to walk out of the seven-party alliance and government Saturday..
Chairperson Ananda Devi said she’ll also resign from parliament and join the terai anti-government amid accusations the government and the alliance were silent spectators to regional demands..
Violence and an indefinite strike in the terai continued for the fifth day Sunday.
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Sujata for monarchy, against communists

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 17 Feb: Sujata Koirala has again come out in support of monarchy.
The daughter of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala also said communists are more dangerous than Nepal’s 238-year old institution.
"Communists are more dangerous than monarchy. BP Koirala suggested Nepali Congress should never establish intimate relationship with communists," she said at a party meeting in Chitwan Saturday.
Sujata supported monarchy as the 10 April assembly election to decide the future of monarchy nears.
She has implicitly supported rebels in the party against her father’s republican and pro-Maoist policies and actions.
Sujata again said Prachanda can’t fight assembly elections because he heads his party’s military wing or the PLA.
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Unity elusive between Unity Center and CPN (Maoist)

Kathmandu, 16 Feb: Unity Center and CPN (Maoist) have decided to forge an electoral alliance for the 10 April constituent assembly election without uniting, Kantipur reports.
A meeting of the Unity Center (Mashal) Saturday decided to form a coordination committee for unity.
Unity Center general secretary Narayan Kazi Shrestha will for the first time appear in public after a party decision.
Maoist leader Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ also ruled out immediate unification.
Both parties are registered with the Election Commission for assembly election; the future after unification posed a problem for the two parties delaying unity.
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