UPDATE ON MAOIST SPLIT Kathmandu, 19 June: CPN (Maoist) headed by Mohan Baidhaya Monday evening will fight for people’s revolution through people’s revolt, the party said at a news conference Tuesday. The party that split from UCPN Maoist now leading the government said the country is now a ‘colony of Indian expansionism’ to which the establishment led by Chairman Prachanda and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai contributed, the new revolutionary communist party said. The CPN (Maoist) called for an interim government and roundtable conference to promulgate a constitution rejected by UCPN (Maoist). The party left the doors open for unity talks between the two Maoist parties. Chairman Prachanda was busy the whole day consulting colleagues after the split. : Prachanda and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai were called rightist revisionists by Secretary-General Ram Bahadur Thapa. Meanwhile, Haribol Gajurel of UCPN (Maoist) charged the new Maoist party as pro-monarchs, who opposed a 12-point pact made between the seven parties andexiled top Maoist leaders in India at Indian initiative. “There was assistance from India while signing the deal. No change can be institutionalized without international aid,” UCPN Maoist Secretary CP Gajurel said. Baidhaya and Gajurel were in Indian jails when the 12-point Accord was signed in the Indian capital. Nnnn