Prachanda accuses India for attempting to kill him like Birendra and Madan Bhattarai

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: Chairman Prachanda leveled a serious accusation against India saying New Delhi was attempting to kill him like King Birendra and former UML General Secretary Madan Bhandari.
The accusation comes at a time when the powerful Chairman of UCPN (Maoist) has also charged India for propping up Dr Baburam Bhattarai in the party as a prime ministerial candidate.
The move, if true, was thwarted when the party decided this week Prachanda would head any government to replace a 24-party coalition led by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.
“There are many reasons to fear former King Birendra and Bhandari were killed for not bowing to India.
“Former King Birendra attempted to hold talks with Maoists; he attempted to import arms from China and declare Nepal a special peace zone. Bhandari didn’t to talk with India and USA. They were killed for these reasons,” Prachanda told a public meeting in the capital Saturday.
“Like the massacre of Birendra’s family, the war won’t end by killing one or two leaders. The situation has now changed. Maoists are made of a new alloy.”
“Discussions were being held to resolve the problem through talks between Birendra and us. At that time, the entire family of Birendra was killed in the Narayanhiti massacre,’ the Maoist chief said calling Birendra a patriot.
“I’ll now win the battle not possible under Madan Bhandari and Birendra,” he added.
Prachanda claimed Bhandari was killed before a planned meeting in Chitwan between the two communist leaders.
Bhandari died along with Jibraj Ashrit in a vehicular accident on the Prithvi Highway.
“Are Maoists trying to threaten us? Maoists leaders are making a big mistake if they are thinking along those lines,” Sudhir Sharma reports from New Delhi in Kantipur.
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Difference sin parties that launched HLPM

Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: Deep differences have surfaced
in Nepali Congress, UCPN(Maoist) and UML after its top leaders launched a high –level political mechanism (HLP) coordinated by ailing Girija Prasad Koirala last week.
Chairman Prachanda and UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal are members. Congress parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Paudel said Sunday a high-level political mechanism (HLPM) without Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is meaningless.
He said this before emplaning for London a week-long visit.
“The rights of the HLPM and its code of conduct should be clear,” Congress Spokesman Arjun Narsingh KC said.
“The institutional decision of the party directs government formation and its running, constitution and law,” he added.
Congress leaders are challenging party president Koirala charged for bring soft towards Maoists.
Congress leaders have also charged Maoists for buttering Koirala.
“The HLPM can’t direct work of the government. Other parties have reservations about a mechanism formed by three parties,” UML leader KP Sharma Oli said Sunday.
“Will this body run the government, parliament or make the constitution or take the parties together?
“Will the mechanism formed without internal party discussion run government or parties?” Oli, a critic of Khanal asked in Biratnagar Saturday.
‘To limit the HLPM to three parties is against the spirit of democracy. Always in Nepal, only a few persons have been staying in policy-making bodies,” said TMLP Chairman Mahanta Thakur said.
“Formation of the mechanism in good. But other parties shouldn’t have been bypassed,” MJF Chairman Upendra Yadav said.
“The mechanism is intended to impose despotism and it not a solution to the existing problems,” RP-Nepal Chairman Kamal Thapa said.
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YCL strengthens grip in Udayapur

Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: The Young Communist League (YCL),youth wing of CCPN(Maoist), is spreading its wings in this eastern district, The Kathmandu Post reports from Udayapur.
YCL district coordinator Jiban Karki aka Kushal said the youth wing had formed sections and platoons in some than 30 VDCs as per the party district committee’s decision on 5 Sept 2009.
The plan, maintained Karki, is to form a company in each ilaka, Karki informed that the district will have a brigade comprising about 2,000 paramilitary personnel.
Each section and platoon has 11 and 60 paramilitary personnel, said Karki.
“We will accomplish the mission of turning the YCL into a paramilitary force in the district by mid-January. However, we will demonstrate the force on 13 Feb.,” informed Karki.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“On behalf of us the president sends congratulations and greetings to all 130 nations that have diplomatic relations with us. We get queries when messages should be sent to the president. [Nepal has no national day after toppling monarchy.]”

(An unidentified official in the foreign ministry, Rajdhani, 10 Jan.)

‘We get involved [in Nepal], we are damned. We take a hands-off approach, we are damned. What are we to do??

“A frustrated Indian official in The Kathmandu Post, 10 Jan.”

“I think every youth in the country is undergoing a terror-ridden psychological state prompted by on one hand, an aspiration of high achievements and on the other hand, a fear of getting robbed of everything in possession. .. a person is in belief of that he is becoming a millionaire within a few days. The same person also has a fear of getting everything in possession lost and becoming penniless.”

(Congress youth leader Gagan Thapa on the country’s condition, The Rising Nepal, 10 Jan.)

“Why do you need UNMIN? There’s no need keeping it with high salaries. The country is suffering inflation because of UNMIN.”

(UML leader KP Sharma Oli, Kantipur, 10 Jan.)
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