PRACHANDA SAYS MAOISTS WILL RULE FOR 500 YEARS Kathmandu, 9 June: Maoist Chairman Prachanda Maoists will rule for 500 years confirming the party is out capture power. :”Yes. Others ruled for 240 years,” he said in apparent reference to Nepal’s sousted Shah kings. “Yes we want to capture state power. We will rule for 500 years,” he said as he lost his cool at a programme in the capital. ‘Is power only their prerogative?” the Maoist chief asked Prachanda was replying to charges UCPN (Maoist) were out to seize power. He said elections will be held even three, four times for constituent assembly (CA) to proclaim a constitution. Election will be held not only once but three, four times even to write a constitution. The Maoist chief said drafting a constitution was a prerogative of the people and it shouldn’t be snatched from them. nnnn