PM BHATTARAI, PRACHANDA DISCUSS INTERNAL PARTY DISPUTE

PM BHATTARAI GIVES PRESIDENT WARM SENDOFF UPDATE
Kathmandu, 10 Oct. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and top cabinet ministers gave President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav a warm sendoff at TIA Monday at the head of state began a four-day Qatar state visit.
Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman and Speaker of parliament Subash Nemwang were also at the airport along with Vice-president Parmananda Jha.
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PM BHATTARAI, MAOIST CHAIRMAN HOLD DISCUSSIONS

Kathmandu, 10 Oct: Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and Maoist Chairman Pachanda held discussions Monday morning on concluding the peace process and the internal conflict in the party.
The meet was held at the Prachanda residence as First Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya opposes the party establishment decision to deliver keys to containers with Maoist weapons to a government committee headed ex-officio by the prime minister.
Bhattarai and Prachanda factions have decided to handover the keys opposed by the Baidya group.
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Maoist fighters clash with passengers
Kathmandu, 10 Oct.: Maoist combatants of the Kailali-based Janamukti Army Seventh Division, on the way to the division from Bajhang after celebrating Dashain, clashed with passengers of a bus bound for Dhangadhi from Bajhang at Saukharka of Dadeldhura district along the Bhimdutta highway this morning [Sunday], The Himalayan Times reports.
from Dandeldhura
The clash ensued at around 2 am after the bus hit the jeep that had battalion commander Gambhir Thapa and four other passengers on board, according to the Dadeldhura District Police Office.

“After the bus hit the jeep, combatants started beating bus staff. Pretty soon, the passengers joined in and started thrashing the fighters,” police quoted the driver.

However, commander Thapa said the bus deliberately hit the jeep when it was about to give way. “After the bus hit our vehicle, we got off the jeep, only to receive beating at the hand of passengers,” Thapa said.

The battalion commander added that a Maoist fighter has sustained head injuries in the ensuing clash.

The fight caused the closure of the Bhimdutta highway for three hours.

DSP Binod Ghimire informed that traffic resumed at around 5 am after police detained the Maoist combatants.

He informed that they released the fighters from the custody of district police

office in the presence of local Maoist leaders later in the

afternoon.
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