Baidhya presents separate documents at CC meet

Kathamndu, Dec 27, UCPN-Maoist senior vice-chairman Mohan Baidhya ‘Kiran’ Tuesday presented a separate document in the Central Committee (CC) meeting of the party fuelling the already existing internal strife in the main ruling party. Party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ had tabled his document in the CC meet that resumed on Saturday, after months of deferral. Initially the meet was called for Sept 18. Following Kiran’s dissent document, the CC meet has been put off till Wednesday as the CC members asked for time to study the report before engaging in the discussions. Sources said that the document of the dissent faction had insisted on carrying out the mandate given by the party plenum held in Palungtar of Gorkha last year. The Maoists had decided to opt for people’s revolt if the peace and constitution process did not move ahead for ensuring the rights of and the peace for the oppressed, marginalized and backward people. In his document Prachanda advocated for continuing with the peace and constitution writing process as it was the people’s mandate given to this party through the CA elections. Kiran had, however, argued that the recent decisions taken by the party establishment on peace and constitution were not in line with the decisions made in the precedent party CC meet. Maoist cadres captures land UCPN-Maoist cadres have captured the land provided by the state to the six families of the landless squatters and distributed it to other landless squatters. After losing the land they were provided by the a Landless Squatters’ Commission in 1998, the squatters were in great pain. The victims said that their land was captured in the leadership of local Maoist cadres Karna Bahadur Thapa and Chandrabir BK. The Maoists were breeding more landless squatters by distributing the land received by one squatter to another," Dilu, Bhurtel, one of the victims, said. The victims have issued a joint statement asking the major three political parties to create an environment to return their captured land. The Maoists have captured the land of squatters Chandralal Neupane, Dilu Bhurtel, Tek Bahadur Khatri, Name Bahadur Khatri, Jhanker Bd Khatri and Basundhara Bhurtel.