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Good show.Anti-India hawk splits Maoist party
- Scrap unequal treaties: Rebel
Kathmandu, June 19 (PTI): Nepal's ruling Maoist party today split with a faction led by anti-India hardliner Mohan Vaidya forming a breakaway group, raising fears that his cadres might return to arms again.
Announcing the split at the end of a three-day national conclave of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Vaidya said his group will never accept the parliamentary system and threatened to launch a "peoples' revolt" or "peoples' war" to establish a "New People's Republic" in the country.
Taking an anti-India posture, the leader of the new breakaway group, which calls itself the Nepal Communist Party-Maoist, demanded that all unequal treaties signed with India should be scrapped, including the historic Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950.
Vaidya also demanded the withdrawal of permission to Indian companies to construct the Upper Karnali and Arun Third hydropower projects as he claimed these pacts were against national interest.
The break-up of the UCPN would pose new challenges in Nepal, which has struggled to implement a peace process after the end of a 10-year bloody civil war in 2006. An estimated 16,000 people were killed in the 1996-2006 Peoples' war fought by the Maoists against the state.
Branding Maoist chief Prachanda and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai as "neo-revisionists" and agents of "expansionists", Vaidya said India had expanded its interference in the country during Bhattarai and Prachanda's stewardship of the party.
He said the Prachanda-Baburam faction had "sabotaged the achievements of Peoples' War and Peoples' Movement" by dissolving the Peoples' Liberation Army.
The split in Nepal's dominant Maoist party plunged the country into deeper political turmoil after the parliament was dissolved in chaos.
The Maoist split comes as clamour is growing in the Himalayan nation for a formation of a National Unity caretaker government to hold the upcoming national elections in November.
The formal split was announced by Vaidya as he claimed support of 44 of the 244 central committee members at the convention attended by 2,000 delegates.
Vaidya said his new party would form a joint front with other patriotic, republican and communist forces and favoured the idea of convening a round table conference to draft the new Constitution. He accused Prachanda and Bhattarai of failing to draft the new Constitution within the deadline and accused them of disarming the Maoist combatants without completing the integration process in a fair manner.
The party named Ram Bahadur Thapa "Badal" as the general secretary of the new group. Netra Bikram Chand "Biplav" and Dev Gurung were made politburo members of the new group.
Anti-India hawk splits Maoist party
The Maoists have been weakened.
It was getting to becoming a monster in Nepal.
Vaidya indicates the real intention of the Maoists working under the facade of democracy.
Typical mode of the Communists to wrest power like a chameleon!