Maoist election disruptions continue; other details

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 13 March: Maoist disruption of electioneering for the 10 April assembly elections continued Thursday.
Maoists Thursday mauled Hari Pariyar of the Congress campaigning in Salyan.
Six of one dozen seriously injured CPM-UML activists injured in a Maoist attack on a public meeting in Ramechap one day earlier were evacuated to the capital by helicopter for urgent medical attention, leader Amrit Bohara said.
CPN-UML Thursday drew the Maoists to election violence demanding it end without repetition.
The war of words between the country’s two communist rivals has come out in the open in the campaign after CPN-UML rejected an electoral alliance with communists.
After UML called Chairman Prachanda a ‘wall president” because the assembly election only elects members of a constituent assembly to draft a constitution, Maoists charged Madhav Kumar Nepal for being subservient to the palace.
Prachanda reminded his public audience during campaigning Wednesday and ridiculed Nepal who pledged loyalty to the King when he ascended the throne after the Narayanhiti massacre in June 2001 by doing ‘darshan’ after throwing a coin at the feet of the newly crowned king.
MANIFESTO
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala later Thursday is releasing the election of the Nepali Congress manifesto officially adopting a republic in the campaign..
Koirala is party president.
The party has presented a closed list of all 335 candidates to be indirectly elected, Kantipur reports in its Thursday editions; another 240 candidates will be directly elections.
Congress is contesting all seats up for grabs.
The male nominees in the closed list in order of priority are: Koirala, and central committee members Baldeb Sharma Majgaiya, Laxman Ghimere, Sunil Bhandary, Pradip Giri, Purna Bahadur Khadka, Dr Minendra Rijal, Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat, Jip Tshering Lama Sherpa, Man Mohan Bhattarai, Shib Chandra Mishra, Indra Bahadur Gurung and Dal Singh Kami.
Women nominees are: Dr Arjoo Deuba, wife of Sher Bahadur Deuba, Uma Adhikari, Mina Pandey, Mahalaxmi Upadhaya and Ambika Basnet.
Acting Party President Sushil Koirala and Deuba selected candidates, published reports said.
MADESH
Terai Madesh Loktantrik Party has adopted a One Madesh, One Pradesh slogan in its manifesto to get rid of ‘international colonialism’.
The manifesto says the region extends from Jhapa to Kanchanpur but does not define the north/south lineage.
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