MAOIST ESTABLISHMENT DISCUSSING 'MINI-REBELLION' IN PARTY

MAOIST ESTABLISHMENT DISCUSSES ‘MINI-REBELLION’

Kathmandu, 15 March: Maoist Chairman Prachanda Thursday began consultations in the party following a “mini-rebellion’ in the party leading the government with a front of parties from the south bordering India.
General-Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa, a military leader during the 10-year people’s way; Thursday leveled sweeping charges against the establishment asking former fighters to be ready for another war.
Amid widespread dissatisfaction in the military wing accompanied by charges of corruption in handing financial affairs , the party is also holding consultations with PLA leaders Thursday.
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MADESH FRONT HOLDING TALKS WITH GOVT.

Kathmandu, 15 March: A meeting of the front of the five Madeshi parties in government is holding consultations Thursday ahead of talks with Maoists leading government.
There are rumblings in the front Maoists haven’t implemented a 4-point agreement pressing regional demands.
But the biggest party of the front MJFL of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachedhar that emerged as the foremost defender of the coalition is attempting to gain maximum advantage from Maoists through cooperation.
But the supreme court has put hurdles intervening by asking not to implement concessions like mass entry into Nepal Army by people from the south as considered illegal. by critics.
The apex court has intervened in several cases butting a brake to implement concessionary regional demands.
MJFN (Ganatantrik) is openly threatening to pullout of government charging non-implementation of the 4-point agreement after supreme court jailed Communication Minister Jayaprakash Prasad Gupta and party chairman for corruption.
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‘The UN has been keenly following developments that are taking place on the peace front and is expressing concern following the withdrawal of its political mission UNMIN in early 2011. If any one is thinking that Ban is coming only for Lumbini, it is not true.”

(Unidentified foreign ministry official on three-UN Chief Ban Ki-moon’s three-nation tour India, Myanmar and Nepal, The Kathmandu Post, 15 March)
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