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Prachanda sees conspiracy

Ameet Dhakal

Says move afoot to disrupt Constituent Assembly poll

— PHOTO: AP

STRESS ON REFORMS: Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) Prachanda at a rally in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU: At a public rally here for the first time in the last 25 years, Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Pracahnda said a conspiracy was being hatched to disrupt the Constituent Assembly (CA) poll scheduled for mid-June.

"If a situation arises where the CA poll becomes impossible in June we should declare Nepal a democratic republic in April itself," Mr. Prachanda told thousands of his supporters who had come from and around Kathmandu to listen to him.

Mr. Prachanda said once the Maoists joined the Government, action would be taken immediately against corrupt leaders and bureaucrats. "Our only interest is the welfare of the Nepali people," he said. "We in the leadership of our party will not even hold private property."

He also pledged progressive land reform. "We will put new ceiling on land holding and any land possessed beyond this ceiling will be nationalised without paying compensation," he said. The CPN (Maoist) organised the mass meeting coinciding with the 11th anniversary of its People's War.

Dialogue

Over 14,000 persons have died since the war began in 1996. The Maoists signed a peace treaty with the Government of the Seven-Party Alliance last November and entered interim Parliament. It is expected to join the interim government within a week or two.

The breakaway faction of the Maoists, Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM), which has been waging an insurgency in the Terai region, has accepted the Government's offer for talks.

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