Further details of Maoist PLA reshuffle

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 29 May: Shantu Derai Parbana has been given responsibility of as head of a 70-member security squad of Chairman Prachanda, Bimarsha reports.
He was first division commander and party central member.
Assistant Commander Birendra BM, who earlier handled Prachanda’s security, has been shifted to the logistics department of PLA with responsibility for headquarters.
Daljit BK of Rukum has been entrusted responsibility for the PLA Sports Club.
Likewise, Santosh has been promoted sixth division co-commander from brigade commander; Kuber and Singha Rajof seventh division have also been appointed co-commanders of which there are now 14.
Yam Bahadur Adkikari has appointed commander of first division while Suk Bahadur Roka has been entrusted division command of second division.
Dhan Bahadur Maski Magar is third division commander and Tej Bahadur Oli is fourth division commander.
Kul Bahadur Kham Magar has been transferred to fifth division and sixth division commander is Mahendra Bahadur Shahi.
Seven division commanders met Prachanda and Dr Babruram Bhattarai and told them re-verification of combatants [19,000 plus] won’t be acceptable to them.

Note : Nepali Congress demanded re-verification of Prachanda boast he tricked UN into accepting 19,000 fighters when the actual strength was only between 7,000 to 8,000.
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11.9 percent inflation

Kathmandu, 29 May: Year-on-year consumer price inflation rose to 11.9 percent until mid-April from 8.9 percent in the same period the previous year, Nepal Rahstra Bank said.
Inflation increased due to a 14.8 percent rise in food and beverages prices and 8.8 percent growth in price index of non-food and service group.
The outgoing Maoist-led government planned to restrict inflation to eight percent.
Despite global recession, remittances surged 60.3 percent to Rs 120 billion in the first nine months if the current fiscal year 2008/09 from 29.6 percent compared to the period the previous year.
Overall balance of payments in the months on the current fiscal year
was Rs 38.8 billion compared Rs 14.0 billion in the same period the previous year.
There’s a current account surplus of Rs 34.6 billion in the review period compared to Rs 1.5 billion the previous year period.
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Dr Dilli Raj Khanal defects to Maoists

Kathmandu, 29 May: Economist Dr Dilli Raj Khanal has defected to Unified CPN (Maoist) from the CPN-UML.
Chairman Prachanda welcomed Dr Kahanal to the party.
Khanal was defeated in the recent election at the general convention of the CPN-UML for central committee member.
Khanal defected after the appointment of Surendra Pandey as finance minister.
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First German to scale world’s 18 eight thousanders

Kathmandu, 29 May: Ralf Dujmovits, 48, became the first German to scale all the world’s fourteen 8000 meter high peaks by stepping atop Lhotse with his wife Gerlinde 20 May.
Gerlinde has also climbed 12 eight thousanders; of them, eight are in Nepal.
Ralf first climbed Makalu in Nepal in 1988 and Mt Everest two years later.
Sixteen climbers have so far climbed the 14 tallest world peaks—a feat first recorded by Italy’s Reinhold Messner.
Messner and Austria’s Peter Habler first scaled Everest without bottled oxygen.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“The man [Madhav Kumar Nepal] was he principal communist architect of the doomed 1990 constitution. And, yes, the Maoists considered him appropriate enough to lead the drafting of the document that is to make the cleanest break with the past.”

(Maila Baje, People’s Review, 29 May)

“The leadership that pulled down the BP government pulled down my government.”

(Chairman Prachanda, Nepal Samacharpatra, 29 May)
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