Party only awaits formal split: Thapa

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Dec 29: Amidst heated exchanges in the ongoing meeting of the Central Committee (CC), Maoist General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa said on Thursday that the party has already split and only awaits a formal announcement of this.

“There are rules and regulations even for regulating a joint front, but our party is left without any rules. The party has already split; it only awaits a formal announcement,” a CC member quoted Thapa as saying during the meeting.

Thapa, who has lately switched sides to the radical faction, argued that Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice-chairman Baburam Bhattarai, who is also the prime minister, are the major violators of party discipline.

“If the party is to be brought back onto the right track, disciplinary action should be taken against the chairman and the prime minister. The party and government leaderships are in the hands of compradors and rightist elements,” a party leader quoted Thapa as saying.

Baidya counters Dahal's proposal

KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 28: Countering Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s political document, Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya on Tuesday floated a road map for people’s revolt prioritizing street protests and recall of the party leaders from the government accusing them of acting against the interests of the country, the people and the spirit of revolution. The government has not only failed to act in the interests of the people, but also signed a bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement with India which was an anti-national move, the document said.

Baidya proposing revolt road map

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Dec 26: Senior Vice-chairman of UCPN (Maoist) Mohan Baidya is preparing a separate political document stressing the viability of “people´s revolt”, concluding that past attempts at launching revolt failed due to unwillingness of the party´s leadership.

Baidya remained busy preparing the document and did not participate in the meeting of his faction as he is supposed to present the paper at the party´s central committee meeting on Monday.

“Kiranji´s [Baidya] document will be a totally forward looking one and contest Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal´s document which is status-quoist,” politburo member Kul Prasad KC, who is close to Baidya faction, said.

According to KC, Baidya´s document will reflect the spirit of the Palungtar plenum held last year that decided that the party should launch revolt if obstacles come in the way of concluding the peace and constitution writing.

Dahal defends party line of peace, statute

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Dec 25: Presenting a written political proposal at the much-awaited Central Committee meeting of the UCPN (Maoist) Saturday, party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has defended the party’s current line of concluding the peace process and constitution-writing.

He has also proposed the setting up of party forums – debate mechanisms within the party at different levels — to systematize the growing internal differences within the party until the party’s next general convention, a date for which is yet to be announced.

Speaking immediately after Dahal presented his proposal, party Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, who leads a rival and more radical faction in the party, told the Central Committee that his group will submit a counter-proposal and demanded a one-day break in the Central Committee meeting to prepare the document.

Maoist Central Committee meeting today at last

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: The ruling UCPN(Maoist) is holding a meeting of its Central Committee on Saturday, after four postponements and amidst widening rift between the party establishment and the rival faction led by Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya over a host of issues.

Maoist leaders say that they expect the meeting to yield a picture of how long the party will continue to remain intact, besides seeing the presentation of separate political papers by Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Baidya.

The Baidya faction is in a wait-and-see mode before charting out its strategies at the meeting, and leaders of the faction said that their moves will largely depend on how honestly Chairman Dahal presents himself respecting the spirit of the Palungtar plenum on constitution making, national interests, federalism and the livelihood of people.

PLA presents Dahal with 10-point demand

 
KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Accusing senior colleagues of financial embezzlement in the cantonments, Baidya faction commanders on Thursday submitted a 10-point demand to Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, seeking strong disciplinary action against the guilty.

Eighteen commanders led by division vice-commanders from all PLA divisions came to Kathmandu and submitted their demands to Dahal at Naya Bazaar.

“The party chairman talked to us positively and assured us of addressing the demands,” said Ram Lal Rokka Magar, Vice-commander of the Fifth Division, who was present during the meeting.

UCPN (Maoist) puts off CC meeting, again

POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 22: The UCPN (Maoist) has postponed its Central Committee (CC) meeting slated for Friday. It is the fourth time that the party establishment has put off its CC meeting. While the party establishment has attributed the postponement to lack of internal homework, the hardliners have accused Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal of continuously deferring the meeting to avoid backlash from the CC members for his "ideological deviation and moral erosion." Though the party has rescheduled the meeting for Saturday, the radical faction led by Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya doubts if Dahal will hold any CC meeting anytime soon. “The party chairman has the strategy of deferring the meeting until he gains an edge over the Baidya faction. So I think the party establishment will continue to defer the CC meeting instead of facing the wrath of the CC members over Dahal´s handling of the party,” said CC member Maheshwar Dahal, who is close to Baidya faction. The party CC has not taken any decision since August when it endorsed the candidacy of Bhattarai as the new prime minister.

Money issues boost Mohan Baidya faction

POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Raising the issue of financial irregularities in the cantonments, PLA commanders loyal to the Maoist radical faction have significantly expanded their support base among their rank and file. With the backing of a large section from the party establishment, PLA commanders from the radical faction have lately raised their voices against the party decision to retain 50 percent of the total amount meant for those who were absent from the cantonments but turned up for the sizeable voluntary retirement packages. “It’s a great injustice to them. They should get in full the promised amount,” said Ram Lal Roka Magar, vice-commander from the Fifth Division, who belongs to the radical faction led by Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya.

Maoist dispute snags integration 2nd phase

KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 20: The second phase of the PLA integration process has fallen into uncertainty due to serious internal disputes between PLA division commanders and party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal during a meeting at the latter’s residence late Monday evening. At the meeting, Dahal and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai sought the approval of the division commanders for a proposal to send home PLA personnel opting for voluntary retirement. But contrary to the expectations of Dahal and Bhattarai, the division commanders vehemently countered the proposal, saying they are against a piecemeal approach to the integration and rehabilitation process that will put the PLA at a disadvantage, according to sources.

Give back our money: PLA guards to commanders

KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 19: Accusing their commanders of embezzling the payments for food rations, PLA personnel deployed for the security of senior party leaders are currently knocking the doors of party leadership for justice.   There were altogether 106 PLA guards in the service of senior party leaders in the capital, and each of them is entitled to Rs 2,500 a month as food ration.   The total amount of money each of them is supposed to get since 2007 is Rs 150,000. In total, the commanders owe Rs 16 million to the PLA guards.

Maoists in stalemate: No split, no unity

POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 15: On Tuesday, Maoist party hardliner CP Gajurel stated publicly that the party would split soon, with current Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, who leads the radical camp, as the head of a new party. Gajurel´s statement, however, received very little media attention as such rhetoric is nothing new coming from the Maoists. In fact, the radicals publicly accuse the moderates of being foreign lackeys and betraying the dream of revolution, while the latter accuse the radicals of being war-mongers and ultra-leftist adventurists hell-bent on spoiling the party´s political achievements. But they have continued to remain in the same party. Why have the Maoist factions, despite such differences and grave allegations hurled at each other, remained glued together as one party? “It´s because none of the factions wants the stigma of having split the party,” says Maoist party establishment leader Ram Karki, who is close to Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai.

Thapa could be PM: Dahal

KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Dec 15: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Wednesday that party General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa could be prime minister if the other parties do not agree to join the government under incumbent PM Baburam Bhattarai. But the Maoist chairman stated that the chance of leading the government should not go to another political parties in the course of attempting to change the government leadership. Dahal expressed such views during a meeting of the party top brass, including Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya and Prime Minister Bhattarai, at his residence at Nayabazaar.

NC, UML: PM, finance minister accountable

KIRAN CHAPAGAIN

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: Taking embezzlement in the allowances of Maoist combatants seriously, the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML have demanded accountability from the prime minister and finance minister during the first meeting of the Special Committee after categorization.

It was revealed during the categorization that the UCPN (Maoist) had been drawing allowances for even those combatants who were not in the cantonments.

'I fought for justice, but fell victim to injustice myself'

	KIRAN PUN SAKRAM (DANG), Dec 12: For Hiramoti Singh Thakuri, joining the Maoist insurgency was more of a compulsion than inspiration.

'Where's our deposit money, comrades?'

POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Dec 7: With the process of their integration and rehabilitation moving ahead smoothly, personnel of the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) have sought the return of money the party has kept as “deposits”.

The Maoist party has been retaining Rs 1,000 from the salary of each of the 19,525 combatants every month since November 2006 till November, 2011.

Ex-Indian Army man guns for NA pension

Khadga Bahadur Singh Thakuri aka Bishwaman, 58 (left) and Tej Bahadur Budha Magar, 53. Both are company commander and both are from Rolpa

DAHABAN (ROLPA), Dec 6: An ex-serviceman of the Indian army, Khadga Bahadur Singh Thakuri, aka Bihswaman, joined the Maoist insurgency in 1996, and survived the worst battles.

अधुरै रह्‍यो नेपाली कथाको सिक्वेल

Photo: Rajesh KC

गिरीश गिरी, काठमाडौं, मंसिर १९- नेपाललाई धेरैले नचिनेको बेला यो सुन्दर मुलुकको कथा रचेर फराकिलो घेरामा पुर्‍याउने अभिनेता देव आनन्दको निधन भएको छ। उपचाररत लन्डनमा रहेका बेला उनले आफू बसेको होटलमै अन्तिम सास फेरेका थिए। बाँचुन्जेल कहिल्यै आराम नलिएका यी ८८ वर्षेलाई हृदयगति बन्द भएको कारण देखाउदै शनिबार राति दस बजे (नेपालमा आइतबार बिहान पौने चार बजे) चिकित्सकले मृत घोषित गरेका हुन्।

१९,५२५ लडाकुलाई कात्तिकसम्मकै भत्ता

सरोजराज अधिकारी

काठमाडौ, मंसिर १८ -
सरकारले १९ हजार ५ सय २५ माओवादी लडाकुको कात्तिक मसान्तसम्मको भरणपोषण -रासन भत्ता) र मासिक भत्ताबापतको रकम निकासा गरिसकेको खुलेको छ ।

शान्ति मन्त्रालयअन्तर्गतको शिविर व्यवस्थापन केन्द्रीय समन्वयकर्ताको कार्यालयका लेखा अधिकृत विष्णुहरि वाग्लेले कात्तिकसम्मको रकम निकासा गरिसकेको जनाए । वर्गीकरणको प्रारम्भिक तथ्यांकअनुसार भने करिब तीन हजार लडाकु 'गायब' हुनसक्ने देखिएको छ ।

माओवादी सेनाका लडाकुको रेखदेख, समायोजन र पुनःस्थापनासम्बन्धी विशेष समिति मातहतको सचिवालयले हालै सकेको वर्गीकरणका बेला २ हजार ६ सय ७१ लडाकु अनुपस्थित देखिएका छन् । प्राविधिक कारणले कतिपय लडाकुको दोहोरो दर्ता भएकाले त्यसको पुनः जाँच गरिने सचिवालय संयोजक बालानन्द शर्माले बताए । सचिवालय स्रोतअनुसार दोहोरो दर्ता भएकाको संख्या घटाउँदा अनुपस्थित हुनेको संख्या तीन हजार पुग्ने अनुमान

छ । शिविर व्यवस्थापन कार्यालय स्रोतका अनुसार चितवनस्थित तेस्रो, सुर्खेतस्थित छैटौं र कैलालीस्थित सातौं शिविरबाहेक अन्य चार मुख्यसहित मातहतका १२ शिविरमा मंसिर महिनाको रासनबापतको करिब तीन करोड रुपैयाँसमेत वितरण भइसकेको छ । 

'शान्ति प्रकि्रयापछि जातभात हेर्न थालियो'

सशस्त्र द्वन्द्वका क्रममा अपांग भएकी माओवादी कार्यकर्ता विजेश्वरी शाही र उनका अपांग लडाकु श्रीमान् । तस्बिर: कलेन्द्र सेजुवाल/नागरिक

कलेन्द्र सेजुवाल, सुर्खेत मंसिर १७
कालिकोट चिल्खायाकी विजेश्वरी शाही २०५८ सालमा माओवादी 'जनयुद्ध'मा होमिदा १४  वर्षकी थिइन् । ९ कक्षाको पढाइ छाडेर बन्दुक बोक्दा उनले देखेका थुप्रैमध्ये एक सपना थियो 'नयाँ नेपाल' । तर दशक लामो यात्रामा उनले नयाँ नेपाल देख्नु त कता-कता आफूबाट थुप्रै गुमाइन् । 'युद्धका बेला गोली लागेर हात काटियो नाबालक छोरो पनि गुमाएँ,' उनी भन्छिन् 'अहिले घर न घाटको भएर बस्नु परेको छ ।'

राम्रा नाम पाउँदै दलित बालबालिका

पर्सा परसवाका मुसहर समूदायका पूजा माझी, अमृता र निशा तस्बिर खिचाउँदै। तस्बिर : उपेन्द्र लामिछाने

उपेन्द्र लामिछाने, वीरगन्ज, मंसिर १८- दलित समुदायले पछिल्लो समयमा आफ्ना बालबालिकालाई चलनचल्तीका राम्रा नाम दिन थालेका छन्। आफूभन्दा ठूलो समूदायसँग नाम मिल्ने डरले 'चल्तीकाभन्दा फरक' नाम राख्दै आएका उनीहरु पछिल्लो राजनितिक परिवर्तनसँगै आफ्ना नानीहरुलाई राम्रो नाम दिन थालेका हुन्।

एकै खुट्टामा तीन घन्टा उभिएर मन्त्रीको स्वागत

सुरेश यादव, जनकपुर, मंसिर १९ - गाउँमा स्वास्थ्यमन्त्री आउने खबर सुनेर दंग थिइन्, आठ वर्षीया प्रियंका ठाकुर। धनुषा, सबैलाकी उनी आइतबार दिउँसो एक हातमा माला र अर्को हातमा बैशाखी समातेर तीन घन्टासम्म उभिरहिन्।

शिविरमा टुटेका सपना

गजेन्द्र बोहरा, दाङ, मंसिर १७- विद्यार्थीकालमै युद्धमा होमिएका रुकुमका भुलबहादुर सुनारले त्यतिबेला एउटा सपना देखेका थिए- 'नयाँ नेपाल' बनाउने। त्यसैले उनी 'लालसेना'मा भर्ती भए। कैंयौ प्रहरी चौकी आक्रमण गरे। सेनाका ब्यारेकमा हमला गरे।
तर २०५९ कात्तिक २८ गते उनको सपनामा 'खोट' लाग्यो। त्यतिबेला माओवादीको आधाजसो लडाकु फोर्स जुम्लाको सैनिक ब्यारेक आक्रमणमा होमिएको थियो। लडाइँको त्यो मोर्चामा उनी पनि थिए। कताबाट गोली आयो, थाहा भएन। ब्युझँदा माओवादीकै उपचार क्याम्पमा थिए, एउटा खुट्टा नचल्ने अवस्थामा। पार्टीले उनलाई लडाइँबाट विदाइ गर्‍यो।

Defectors to PLA want integration

Anjan Kumar Timilsina with People's Liberation Army (PLA) uniform

Anjan Kumar Timilsina with then Royal Nepal Army's uniform

KIRAN PUN
DAHABAN (Rolpa), Dec 3: A corporal in the then Royal Nepal Army (now Nepal Army), Anjan Kumar Timilsina, defected to the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) in 2001 to realize the ´ideals of revolution´.
A decade later, Timilsia, 42, is not sure whether his dream has come true -- or will ever do so. But he regards himself better placed to serve the country, and has applied for integration into the army.

Cindered dreams

Ram Lal Roka Magar 'Madan' (Currently the Division vice commander, left) and Sural Pun 'Ajayshakti' (Currently Bataright). Madan and Sural are Mit (two friends who announce their friendship amidst a ceremony and who will have cultural as well as legal bindings afterward as per the tradition in Nepal). Madan from Rolpa and Sural from Rukum, were met during the initial period of People’s War when both of them were heading their respective platoons through the jungles spending one and half month on the way to meet at Kalikot in Karnali. KIRAN PUN Though categorization -- the initial phase of the integration and rehabilitation of Maoist combatants -- has come to an end, a cloud of uncertainty still hovers over People Liberation Army (PLA) personnel. What does the future hold for those who opted for voluntary-retirement? What’ in store for those who have decided to join the Nepal Army?

Division commanders jostle for post in NA directorate

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 30: With the PLA integration process making steady headway, senior Maoist commanders have entered a race to become the highest ranking Nepal Army (NA) official from among themselves.
Sources say that is why six of the division commanders have opted for integration, though Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had earlier asked them to make arrangements for integration of only those below the rank of division vice-commander. “We don´t want to lose the opportunity to become the leading ex-PLA in the directorate. Also, we will otherwise severely weaken our bargaining capacity with the party for better positions,” said a division commander who did not want to be named. 

Scions of Maoist brass for retirement package

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 29: After leading a life of uncertainty and shortages at the cantonments since 2007, personnel of the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) are finally heaving a sigh of relief, with most of them opting for either integration or voluntary retirement.

But a few Maoist fighters are luckier than others. The sons and daughters of top Maoist echelons, who have been registered as combatants but are living a comfortable life with their parents in Kathmandu, have gone back to the cantonments, and will enjoy the same packages.

"It is not that we are enjoying the comforts of city life. We are working with our parents as their staff," said Femash Pun, son of PLA chief Nanda Kishor Pun. He is registered as company commander at the Fifth Division in Rolpa.

Why majority combatants chose integration?

KIRAN CHAPAGAIN / KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 28: Though Maoist combatants were seen opting for voluntary retirement and integration at the ratio of 40:60 on the first few days of the categorization process, the trend has seen a reversal as the process concludes in all the seven cantonments, except in Kailali, on Monday.

With the completion of categorization of 14,625 by Sunday, around 60 percent of the ex-Maoist combatants have chosen integration while around 40 percent have preferred voluntary retirement. It is also something contrary to what politicians had widely believed before the categorization began.

Now a question arises: what bucked the initial trend as the categorization progressed and what prompted such a large number of the PLA to opt for integration?  

Just two combatants opt for rehabilitation package

Krishna Kumar Rai Atal

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 27: A few days into the combatants categorization, it seems almost nobody is opting for the rehabilitation package. Out of the 13,000 combatants surveyed so far, just two combatants, Krishna Kumar Rai and Nirmal Rai from the Second Division, have opted for the rehabilitation package.
The Rai duo has chosen a one-year training as drivers as their first option.

PLA threatens to shun integration over edu criteria

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 16: The Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) commanders have warned to boycott the integration process if the criteria set for educational qualifications of the PLA in the seven-point agreement are not amended.

Talking to the Republica on Tuesday evening, the commanders also flayed Maoists leadership for its continuing indifference toward the problems and vowed no combatant will opt for integration if the leadership makes no arrangement that recognizes the educational qualifications of the PLA personnel earned after UN verification in 2007.

Disabled combatants feel neglected, humiliated

Prabina Gole Namuna (photo: Nabin Bibhas)

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 13: Neither the ordeals of jungle life nor the well-trained state soldiers could discourage them. As the members of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA), they were at the forefront of successive battles and fought the state forces bravely for the sake of a utopia the party promised.

But they matter less as the peace process strides forward, and it is especially true of over 1,000 PLA amputees who have been left to fend for themselves at this juncture.

शिविरका सपनाहरू

सातबँुदे सहमतिअनुसार शान्तिप्रक्रिया अगाडि बढाउने सहमतिले माओवादी लडाकुको शिविरमा खुवै चहलपहल त बढेको छ । तर, शिविरमा खुसी र हाँसोभन्दा के हुने भन्ने अन्योल बढी देखिन्छ । सातबुँदेपछि माओवादी लडाकुको चौथो डिभिजनअन्तर्गत रूपन्देहीको कृष्णसेन स्मृति बि्रगेडमा पुगेका थिए संवाददाता नेत्र पन्थी । प्रस्तुत छ २४ घन्टाको शिविर बसाइमा उनले देखेको दृश्य:

सबैभन्दा खतरनाक हुन्छ

मुर्दाशान्तिले भरिनु

कुनै छटपटी नहुनु

सबै सहनु

घरबाट काममा निक्लनु 

र कामबाट खुरुखुरु घर र्फकनु

सबैभन्दा खतरनाक हुन्छ 

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इतिहासकै सबैभन्दा ठूलो मन्त्रीमण्डलको नामावली

1. डा. बाबुराम भट्टराई प्रधानमन्त्री
माननीय उपप्रधानमन्त्रीहरू
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3. नारायणकाजी श्रेष्ठ परराष्ट्र

                      

No rollback on Dhungel pardon decision: PM

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 13: Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said on Saturday that he will not withdraw the recommendation his cabinet made to the president to grant a pardon to court-convicted CA member Bal Krishna Dhungel.

The prime minister said this upon arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport from his five-day visit to the Maldives to participate in the 17th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

सम्मानपूर्वक नहुँदासम्म सेना समायोजन हुँदैन

नेत्रविक्रम चन्द विप्लव, माओवादी नेता
शान्ति प्रकृया टुंग्याउने विषयमा मुख्य तीन दलबीच कात्तिक १५ गते भएको महत्वपूर्ण सहमतिप्रति सवै राजनीतिक दल र आम जनता खुसी भइरहेका बेला माओवादीकै एउटा हिस्सा भने चर्को बिरोधमा उत्रिएको छ । उसका गतिबिधि र अभिब्यक्ति हेर्दा लाग्छ कात्तिक १५ को रात खुसी भन्दा पनि दुःखी हुनुपर्ने रात हो । सहमति कार्यन्वनय हुन नसक्ने बताउँदै आएको बैद्य समूहले कब्जा सम्पत्ति फिर्ता गर्ने पार्टी निर्देशनको पनि अबज्ञा गरेको छ । सबै क्षेत्रले स्वागत गरेको सहमतिप्रति माओवादीको वैद्य समूह किन असन्तुष्ट ? वैद्य पक्षले चाहेको के हो ? त्यो पक्षका लडाकुले अब के गर्लान् ? बैद्य पक्षका खास नेता र योजनाकार भनेर चिनिने नेत्रबिक्रम चन्द बिप्लवसँग हामीले छोटो कुराकानी गरेका छौं ।

देवीले संसदमा भनिन- ‘म पनि माधव नेपालविरुद्ध किटानी जाहेरी दिन्छु’

Photo: Nabin Bibhas

२५ कात्तिक, काठमाण्डौं । ब्यक्ति हत्याको आरोपमा जन्मकैद फैसला सुनाइएका माओवादी सभासद बालकृष्ण ढुंगेलको मुद्दा फिर्ता लिन सरकारले सिफारिस गरेको बिषयले आइतवारको सदन तात्यो । माओवादी र बिपक्षी सभासद्ले पक्ष र बिपक्षमा आ-आफ्ना धारणा राखे ।

यसरी बोल्ने समासदमध्ये सवैभन्दा मार्मिक र पेचिलो सम्बोधन थियो- माओवादी सभासद देवी खड्काको । जनयुद्धका क्रममा आफ्ना श्रीमान र दाजुसहित चार जना गुमाएकी तथा प्रहरी हिरातमा आफ्नै अस्मिता गुमाएकी देवीको सम्बोधनले त्यसअघि बोल्ने धेरै वक्ताको अनुहारलाई अँध्यारो बनाएको थियो भने सदनमा सन्नाटा छाएको थियो ।

Maoist war vortex now draws scholars

	KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Nov 10: Jelbang village at the foothills of Jaljala in Rolpa fell under the control of the Maoist rebels immediately after the insurgency began in 1996, and bore the full brunt of the violent conflict. Today, Jelbang stands out. Not only because it is one of of the first liberated zones the Maoists created during the war, but also because it has a whole lot of untold stories of pain and suffering.

Families with two or more PLA member to rake in moolah

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 8: Families with more than one member in the Maoist PLA stand to receive handsome amounts of money if they opt for voluntary retirement in the course of management of the combatants.

Many families have more than three members in the Maoist army, which is awaiting management under the recently-signed peace deal, it is learnt. PLA chief Nanda Kishor Pun, top PLA commanders, division commanders and vice-commanders have more than three members each in the former rebel army.

PM defends integration model, PLA labels it as surrender

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 8: Prime Minister and Chairman of Special Committee Baburam Bhattarai has refuted the allegation that the integration modality of the Maoist combatants as envisioned in the seven-point agreement was surrender and stressed that the proposed integration is necessary to complete the revolution.

In a meeting with the top PLA commanders held at PM´s official residence at Baluwatar on Monday evening, Prime Minister Bhattarai tried his best to assure the former combatants that the integration model perfectly safeguarded core interests of the PLA and the Maoist party.

Forgotten combatant struggles for life

UPENDRA LAMICHHANE
BARA, Nov 6: He wrote inspirational lines on walls glorifying the Maoist insurgency during his stint as an insurgent. Left to fend for himself, ParshuramChaudhary who is suffering from stomach ailment is now struggling to save his life.

“I couldn’t die a glorious death during the insurgency despite staring death in the eyes on many occasions and now I’m going to die due to lack of treatment,” Chaudhary, 45, rued.

PLA allots integration quota to 7 divisions

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: The General Staff meeting of People´s Liberation Army (PLA) has finalized the quotas for all its seven divisions on the number of combatants opting for integration and has directed all divisional headquarters to initiate selection procedures accordingly.

Thapa asks PLA to defy gag order

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 6: Taking strong exception to the recent whip issued by the People´s Liberation Army (PLA), UCPN (Maoist) General Secretary and in-charge of the party´s military commission Ram Bahadur Thapa has asked PLA members not to follow the whip that bars the latter from making public statements against integration and rehabilitation modality.

Thapa expressed his objection with some central committee members of the party from the far-western region who met Thapa on Saturday.

4th Division commanders oppose education provision

KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Nov 6: Commanders of the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) Fourth Division on Saturday seriously objected to the provision in the integration deal to take into account the educational level that combatants had at the time of joining the insurgency -- not the current one.

Education, age put PLA top brass off integration

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 5: As the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) braces for integration of its combatants into the national army, education level, age and service period in the PLA seem to discourage many top commanders and vice commanders from opting for the integration.

Most of the PLA top commanders- let alone other combatants- do not have the required educational level to qualify for higher posts in the Nepal Army(NA).

PLA division commanders to opt out of integration

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 3: Top echelons of the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) will not join the Nepal Army (NA), but are likely to get some ´political appointments´ instead.

Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal told PLA division commanders during a meeting at his residence Thursday morning that PLA commanders including division commanders and above should opt out of integration.

UCPN (Maoist) decides to proceed with peace deal

POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Oct 30: In a UCPN (Maoist) meeting "boycotted" by the party´s radical faction, the party establishment has decided to seal a deal on the protracted peace process in the next couple of days. "There were only a few contentious issues including the number of the combatants to be integrated and rehabilitation packages for the rest. We agreed to strike a deal within the next couple of days," Maoist spokesman Dinanath Sharma told Republica after the "informal meeting" of the party standing committee.

The seven point agreement

	KATHMANDU, Nov 2: National consensus is a must to take the peace process to a logical end and complete the task of writing the new constitution. So, as per the Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2006 and various other understanding between the political parties at different times, the following understanding has been reached to compete the remaining task of constitution writing and move forward as per the politics of national consensus.

Baidya registers dissent

	REPUBLICA KATHMANDU, Nov 2: Taking strong exception to the peace deal, Maoist radical faction has stated that the agreement seriously violates the party´s basic principles and commitment made to the people during the "People´s War".

BREAKTHROUGH IN PEACE PROCESS

	7-point peace deal
	KIRAN CHAPAGAIN & KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Nov 2: In a rare show of political consensus, major political parties on Tuesday set aside their differences and signed a historic seven-point deal on management of ex-Maoist combatants and on concluding the peace process despite objection from the Mohan Baidya faction of the Maoist party.

A mother’s wait, a son’s seeming sangfroid

S. Vijay Kumar
“My son will return home soon… he is innocent. He has been in prison for more than 20 years, and how can they hang him now?” Arputhammal (65), mother of Perarivalan, finds words to console herself, as he faces capital punishment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

For two decades, this frail woman has been waging a lone battle. On coming to know that the police were looking for Perarivalan alias Arivu, days after the assassination of the former Prime Minister on May 21, 1991, she handed over her 19-year-old son to the Special Investigation Team. From then on, Arputhammal says, she has been waiting in the hope that he would return home.

जो मृत्युको मुखबाट फर्किए

Saशस्त्र युद्धमा होमिनेहरूलाई मर्ने र मार्ने काम सामान्यजस्तो लाग्छ । मानौं कि उनीहरू युद्धमा 'मर्न र मार्न'कै लागि लागेका हुन् । युद्धकालमा 'दुश्मन'को नियन्त्रणमा पर्नु करिब-करिब जीवनलीला समाप्त हुनु हो । युद्धकालमा 'दुश्मन'का नियन्त्रणमा परेकाहरू अधिकांश मारिन्छन् । 

Loud and clear from Trafalgar Square, "No more war!"

BIBEK BHANDARI
Running headline had it that more than 1,000 supporters for peace gathered at London’s Trafalgar Square on October 9.

Speakers included such personalities as John Pilger, journalist and documentary filmmaker; Jemima Khan, associate editor of The Independent; Tony Benn, British Labour Party politician and former MP; and Julian Assange, editor-in-chief for the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

At an anti-war demonstration in central London on Saturday, while most of the participants and prominent speakers criticized the governments for the Iraq and Afghan invasion, Julian Assange accounted the media for propagating government-vested interests and misleading information.

Crossing Over, and Over

Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
AGUA PRIETA, Mexico — "My wife, my son — I have to get back to them," Daniel kept telling himself, from the moment he was arrested in Seattle for driving with an expired license, all the way through the deportation proceeding that delivered him to Mexico in June.

Nothing would deter him from crossing the border again. He had left his hometown at 24, he said. Twelve years later, he spoke nearly fluent English and had an American son, a wife and three brothers in the United States. "I’ll keep trying," he said, "until I’ll get there."

पार्टीको क्रान्तिकारी विचार, कार्यदिशा, कार्ययोजना तथा नेतृत्वको रक्षा एवम् विकास गरौं : वादल

October 1, 2011
माओवादीका महासचिव रामबहादुर थापा ‘वादल’ ले     क्रान्तिकारी विचार, कार्यदिशा, कार्ययोजना तथा नेतृत्वको रक्षा एवम् विकासमा जोड गर्नुभएको छ । पार्टीभित्र जारी अन्तरसङ्घर्ष, अन्तरसङ्घर्षको अन्तरवस्तु र अब पार्टीले लिने रणनीति र कार्यनीतिका बारेमा निकै प्रष्टसँग उहाँले आफ्नो विचार प्रस्तुत गरिरहनु भएको छ । पार्टीभित्र अत्यन्त सन्तुलित, शालीन, शान्त र दृढताका साथ क्रान्तिकारी लाइनको पक्षमा उभिदैं आउनुभएका महासचिव वादलका समसामयिक विचारलाई यहाँ प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ–

Prime Minister Dr. भट्टराईको एक महिने डायरी

(भदौ ११-असोज ११)

भदौ ११ः डा. बाबुराम भट्टराई प्रधानमन्त्रीमा निर्वाचित, विभिन्न नेताहरूद्वारा बधाई तथा तथा शुभकामना, भारतीय प्रधानमन्त्री डा.मनमोहन सिंहद्वारा टोलिफोनमा कुराकानी ।

भदौ १२ः प्रधानमन्त्री भट्टराई माओवादी पदाधिकारी बैठकमा सहभागी, मन्त्रिपरिषद्बारे मधेसी मोर्चासँग छलफल, राष्ट्रपतिनिवासमा शपथ, पुष्पलाल पार्क कीर्तिपुरमा माल्यार्पण, मन्त्रिपरिषद्को पहिलो बैठक, कांग्रेस एमालेलगायतका दललाई सरकारमा सहभागी बन्न आग्रह, सविधानसभा बैठकमा सहभागी, तीन महिना म्याद थप ।

माओवादी उपाध्यक्ष बैद्य र महासचिव बादलले रक्षामन्त्रीको राजीनामा मागे

संसारका मजदुरहरु एक होऔं !                              माक्स्रवाद-लेनिनवाद-माओवाद÷विचार जिन्दावाद !

                                       एकीकृत नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी माओवादी

                                                   केन्द्रीय समिित

                                                                                             मिति ः २०६८ आश्विन ११ गते 

                                                               प्रेस-विज्ञप्ति

सरकारका वर्तमान रक्षामन्त्री श्री शरदिसंह भण्डारीद्वारा २०६८ ९ गते रिपोर्टस् क्लबमा दिइएको ुराष्ट्रघाती वक्तव्युले संपूर्ण देशभक्तहरुलाई स्तब्ध तुल्याएको छ । तराईका बाइस जिल्ल्ााहरुलाई पृथक राज्यको रुपमा घोषणा गर्ने अप्रत्याशित उद्घोषले सबै राष्ट्रप्रेमी तथा देशभक्त जनसमुदायलाई अत्यन्तै आक्रोशित एवं आश्चर्यचकित तुल्याएको छ ।

Chand to block return of seized properties

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Sept 26: UCPN (Maoist) Standing Committee Member Netra Bikram Chand, who is close to Senior Vice-Chairman Mohan Baidya, has threatened to block the government bid to return properties seized by the Maoists during the conflict.

Addressing a function in Kathmandu on Sunday, Chand announced that he would go to the places where the government will deploy police to return the seized properties and obstruct the police.

“Wherever Baburam [the prime minister] sends police, I will be there. We will see how the police will fire at us,” a participant in the closed-door meeting quoted Chand as saying.

Chand also accused Bhattarai of forgetting the circumstances in which he became the prime minister, a reference to the Dhobighat meeting based on which Bhattarai became prime minister.

आन्तरिक विवादमा माओवादी र कांग्रेस

 

23/09/2011 19:01:00 नेत्र पन्थी/बालकृष्ण अधिकारी from Naya Patrika

काठमाडौं, ६ असोज : मधेसी मोर्चासँगको चारबुँदे सहमति र हतियार राखेका कन्टेनरको साँचो बुझाउने विषयसँगै जोडिएका विवादमा अगामी १३ असोजमा हुने माओवादी केन्द्रीय समिति बैठकमा चर्को बहस हुने भएको छ । विवाद सुल्झाउन शीर्ष नेताहरूले अनौपचारिक छलफल जारी राखे पनि शुक्रबारसम्म कुनै निष्कर्ष निस्केको छैन ।

I like to identify myself as a radical democrat: Dr Baburam Bhattarai

    
BHOJRAJ POKHAREL/SHRISTHI RANA
Baburam Bhattarai, who would later become a key actor in abolishing the all-powerful monarchy in Nepal, was born poor.
The Bhattarais stayed in the remote backward village of Belbase, Gorkha district. Though down-and-out, the family had seen better daysmany generations ago.
They belong to the priestly class family which helped to install the same Shah dynasty, which Baburam so bitterly opposed, some five centuries ago.

Baidya faction holds national gathering

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Sept 22: In a show of strength, the Maoist hard-line faction held a massive gathering of the party leaders and cadres in Kathmandu on Wednesday to sensitize them about the “ideological deviations” of the party leadership and work out a strategy to save the “revolutionary” character of the party.

Over 250 representatives, including district secretaries from all the 75 districts, party´s various sister wings, and party´s foreign branches participated in the gathering at Krishna Bhog Party Palace in New Baneshwar.

Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa, and standing committee member Dev Gurung delivered firebrand speeches at the gathering, while party Secretary CP Gajurel was the master of ceremony.

Baidya argued that his faction has already launched a struggle against compromises made by the party establishment on the basic principles of Maoism.

School better late than never for top Maoist wives

Shusma

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: For the willing of heart, greying hair is no barrier to learning. This is especially true of the spouses of some senior Maoist leaders, who now have the time and resources to begin their formal education.
At the forefront of this learning effort is Sushma Baidya, 55, wife of senior Maoist Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya. She is a grade six student at Chetana Women’s School of Gangabu, Kathmandu.

“I also have to attend to household chores. Otherwise I would have done better in school,” says Sushma.

She has been diligent enough to reach grade six in three years and is currently preparing for her final exams.

'बाजेको पालाका' घर भत्के

सुन्दर खनाल, भक्तपुर, असोज ३- 
भूकम्पले क्षणभरमै घर भत्किएपछि उनीहरुले छेवैको पाटीमा रात काटे। अनिदो बिताउन घरसँग जोडिएका बाजेबराजुका कथा सम्झे। उज्यालो भएपछि खण्डहर हेर्न मान्छे आएकोआयै गरे, बेलिबिस्तार लगाउँदै दिन बित्यो। फेरि रात कहाँ बिताउने? सोमबार साँझसम्म ठेगान थिएन।
लक्ष्मीनारायण वासुकलाको परिवारले इतिहासै मान्थ्यो, भक्तपुर नगरपालिका-१० व्यासीस्थित घरलाई। ३० इन्च मोटो गारो भएको त्यो नेवारी परम्पराको संरचनाले नब्बे र पैँतालिस सालका भूकम्प थामेको थियो। 'हामीलाई कहिल्यै पुरानो लागेन यो घर, भावना जोडिएकाले होला,' लक्ष्मीनारायणका छोरा एमएस्सी जुलोजीको विद्यार्थी अविस्रापनजले भने।

प्रधानमन्त्रीद्वारा संसदमा सम्बोधन, सहमतिका लागि आह्वान

निर्वाचित भएपछि प्रधानमन्त्रीले पहिलो पटक संसदमा सम्बोधन
Friday, 16 September 2011 12:20 भदौ ३०
सम्माननीय प्रधानमन्त्री डा.बाबुराम भट्टराईले २०६८ भाद्र ३० गते व्यावस्थापिका– संसदमा गर्नु भएको सम्बोधन

सम्माननीय सभामुख महोदय,

संघीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपालको प्रधानमन्त्रीका रुपमा सार्वभौम व्यवस्थापिका संसद समक्ष आफ्नो प्रथम सम्बोधन गर्न पाउँदा मलाई थोरै खुसी र धेरै जिम्मेवारीबोधको मिश्रित अनुभूति भईरहेको छ। इतिहासकै यस महत्तम क्षणमा सर्वप्रथम म संघीयता, गणतन्त्र, लोकतन्त्र र राष्ट्रियताका लागि महान् जनयुद्ध, ऐतिहासिक जनआन्दोलन, मधेश आन्दोलन, जनजाति आन्दोलन, थरुहट आन्दोलन, दलित आन्दोलन, पिछडा वर्ग आन्दोलन र अन्य समुदायद्वारा न्यायोचित मागका लागि भएका आन्दोलनहरुमा आत्मबलिदान गर्ने सम्पूर्ण सहिदहरुप्रति हार्दिक श्रद्धान्जलि व्यक्त गर्दछु। साथै, बेपत्ता तथा घाईते योद्धाहरुप्रति उच्च सम्मान प्रकट गर्दछु। बेपत्ता पारिएका व्यक्तिका परिवारजनहरु, विस्थापित जन, अपाङ्ग, जेल तथा बन्दी जीवन बिताएकाहरुको असीमित कष्ट र पीडाप्रति सहानुभूति प्रकट गर्दै घाइतेहरुको शिघ्र स्वास्थ्यलाभको कामना गर्दछु। ती महान् शहीद, बेपत्ता तथा घाइते योद्धाहरुको असीम त्याग र बलिदानको जगमा आज म आसीन सर्वोच्च कार्यकारी पदको कुर्ची टिकेको छ भन्ने तथ्यलाई म कहिल्यै बिर्सन सक्दिन र उहाँहरुको सपना साकार पार्न निरन्तर लागिरहने प्रतिबद्धता म यहाँ दोहोर्‍याउन चाहन्छु।

Clemency plea likely for convicted Maoists

KIRAN CHAPAGAIN /KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Sept 13: The government is likely to request India for clemency to ten Maoist leaders including four sitting lawmakers and politburo leaders convicted on treason charges by an Indian high court recently.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayankaji Shrestha told Republica that the government on Monday approached the office of the attorney general for advice.
"We have asked the attorney general to study the legal procedure and how the issue can be resolved," Shrestha said when asked how the government and the Maoist party would deal with the verdict of the Patna High Court.

दुई दिनपछि झुल्किएका प्रचण्डले भने-पारिवारिक समस्या मिलाएँ

'नेपालबाहिर गइनँ, तर कहाँ गएको भन्न मिल्दैन'२५ भदौ, काठमाडौं । वरिपरि जर्दजौं कमाण्डोको सुरक्षा लिएर हिड्ने माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्ड गत शुक्रबारदेखि कसैलाई पत्तै नदिई हराएपछि फेसबुकदेखि सार्वजनिक मिडियासम्म चर्चा र खोजीका बिषय बने ।
शुक्रबार बिराटनगर बिमानस्थलमा देखिएका प्रचण्ड आइतवार पुन त्यहीं भुल्किए । तर यी दुई दिनमा प्रचण्ड कहाँ गए त्यसबारे पार्टी कार्यकर्ता, संचारकर्मी, सुरक्षा निकाय र जासुसी संयन्त्रले समेत केही पत्तो लाउन सकेनन् ।
यसबिचमा डिभोर्सनजिक पुगेका छोरीज्वाईर्ंको झगडा मिलाउन सिलिगुडी पुगेको, दक्षिण एसियाली माओवादी पार्टीको गोप्य वैठकमा भाग लिन पूर्वी पहाडतिर हानिएको र साँचो बुझाउने बिषयमा असन्तुष्ट पहिलो डिभिजनका लडाकू फकाउन इलाम गएको लगायतका अडकलबाजी काटिए ।

अल्पमतमा परेँ : वैद्य

Sunday, 11 September 2011 11:15 नागरिक
माओवादी उपाध्यक्ष मोहन वैद्यसँग नागरिकका किरण भण्डारीले लिएको अन्तर्वार्ता
सरकारले ल्याएको राहत कार्यक्रम कस्तो छ?-कस्तो कार्यक्रम ल्याउने भनेर पार्टीमा सल्लाह भएको होइन। समग्रमा ठिकै। कतिपय बुँदा अमूर्त र अपुरो छ। धेरै टीकाटिप्पणी नगरौं।

सरकारले पूर्णता नपाएकाले कार्यक्रम अपुरो भएको हो कि? तपाईंको पक्ष कहिले सरकारमा जान्छ?-सरकारले पूर्णता पाउने भनेको हाम्रो विचार समूहको प्रवेशमात्र होइन। कांग्रेस, एमाले र अरू दललाई समेत ल्याउने हो।
केन्द्रीय समिति बैठकपछि मात्र पूर्णता दिनुपर्छ भन्ने कुरा आएको छ। त्यसैअनुसार असोज १ गतेलाई बैठक पनि डाकिएको थियो। प्रधानमन्त्री राष्ट्रसंघको बैठकमा जानुपर्ने भएपछि फेरि सर्‍यो। केन्द्रीयमा छलफल नभई सरकारले पूर्णता पाउँदैन।

Dahal's whereabouts churns rumor mill

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Sept 11: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has a penchant for clandestine trips. Be it within the country or abroad, he has made many secret trips, generating curiosity and controversy.

His sudden trip Friday evening to the eastern part of the country (still not known where exactly) has stirred fresh speculation, rumors-and even conspiracy theories.

First, let´s start with what is known for certain: Chairman Dahal landed at Biratnagar airport Friday evening, accompanied by his wife Sita and son Prakash. He was received by his confidant Haribol Gajurel, a Maoist politburo member.

Nepal’s Peace Process and the ICG Report

Buddhi Man Tamang
Research Intern, IPCS
email: buddhisyangdan@gmail.com

Recently, the International Crisis Group (ICG) published a report titled ‘Nepal’s Fitful Peace Process.’ This comes a month before the extension of the Constituent Assembly’s term by three months for the second time. The report covers four crucial issues: the delay in drafting the constitution, integration and the rehabilitation of the Maoist Army, lack of political consensus among the political parties and the role of international community in facilitating Nepal’s peace process.

यस्तो छ, माओवादी नेतृत्व सरकारले ल्याएको राहत कार्यक्रम

भूमिका
शान्ति प्रक्रियालाई सार्थक निष्कर्षमा पुर्‍याउने र संविधान सभाबाट संविधान निर्माण गर्ने दुई प्रमुख कार्यभार पूरा गर्नका लागि संविधान सभाको निर्वाचन पश्चात गठन भएको यो चौथो सरकार हो। यस अवधिमा राष्ट्रिय राजनीतिले न त उपर्युक्त कार्यभार निर्वाह गर्न सक्यो न त जनजिविकाका सवालहरुमा नै यथेष्ठ ध्यान केन्द्रित गर्न सक्यो। राजनीतिक कार्यसूचीको छायाँमा जनजिविकाका सवालहरु परेकोले गर्दा जनताको जनजीवन कष्टकर हुनुको साथै जनतामा ब्यापक रुपमा निराशा, कुण्ठा तथा आक्रोस श्रृजना भई राज्य प्रतिको जनविश्वासमा ह्रास हुँदै गईरहेको अवस्था छ। यस पृष्ठभूमिमा शान्ति प्रकृया र संविधान निर्माणको अतिरिक्त जनतालाई राहत दिई राज्यप्रतिको जनविश्वास अभिबृद्धि गर्नु सरकारको अर्को महत्वपूर्ण कार्यभार भएकोले नेपाल सरकारले यो तत्काल राहतको कार्यक्रम तर्जुमा गरी कार्यान्वयनमा ल्याएको छ।
मुलुक संक्रमणकालबाट गुज्रिरहेको सन्दर्भमा यसको व्यवस्थापन निकै चुनौतिपूर्ण रहेको छ। एकातर्फ राजनीतिक कार्यभार यथासमयमा सम्पन्न गर्नुपर्ने अवस्था छ भने अर्कोतर्फ मुलुकको आर्थिक सामाजिक विकासको प्रक्रिया तथा जनताको जिउ धनको सुरक्षामा यथेष्ठ ध्यान पुर्‍याउनु पर्ने अवस्था छ। मुलुकको दीर्घकालीन विकासको लागि साझा आर्थिक विकास नीति तथा कार्यक्रम घोषणा गर्न यो सरकारले पहल गर्ने प्रतिवद्धता व्यक्त गर्दछ। निजी क्षेत्रको आत्मविश्वास अभिबृद्धि तथा लगानीको वातावरणमा सुधार गरी आर्थिक गतिविधिको वृद्धिले मात्र सरकारको खर्च गर्ने क्षमताको साथै नेपाली जनताको जीवनस्तर उठ्न सक्दछ भन्ने कुरामा सरकार स्पष्ट छ। तथापि जनताको दैनिक समस्या प्रति राज्यको उपेक्षाभाव कुनैपनि मूल्यमा जनताका लागि स्वीकार्य हुन सक्दैन भन्ने कुरा यो सरकारले बुझेको छ। जनतामा आत्मसम्मान तथा आत्मविश्वास सहित आत्मनिर्भरता एवं स्वाधीनताको भावना जागृत नभएसम्म जस्तोसुकै विकासका नीति र कार्यक्रम ल्याए पनि त्यस प्रति उसको चासो र सहभागिता अभिव्यक्त हुन सक्दैन भन्ने सन्दर्भलाई पनि त्यत्तिकै गंभीरतापूर्वक लिनुपर्दछ।

बाबुरामले पार्टी छाडे पनि संगठन फुटाएनन्

मोहनविक्रम सिंहमहामन्त्री, नेकपा मसाल

मलाई ठ्याक्कै मिति त याद भएन, तर डा.बाबुराम भट्टराईसँग भारतमा सम्पर्क भएको थियो । कानपुरमा विद्यार्थीहरूको सम्मेलन थियो । उहाँ अखिल भारत विद्यार्थी संघको अध्यक्ष हुनुहुन्थ्यो । विद्यार्थी संघले एउटा सेमिनारको आयोजना गरेको थियो । त्यसमा म सहभागी हुन गएको थिए त्यतिवेला नै उहाँसँग सम्पर्क भयो । कानपुरपछि उहाँसँग दिल्लीमा नियमित सम्पर्क भइरह्यो । उहाँले जेनयुबाट पिएचडी गर्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो । म उहाँको कोठामा गइरहन्थेँ । त्यही दौरानमा नै उहाँ पार्टीमा प्रवेश गर्नुभयो । यो पञ्चायतीकालमा भएकोले मलाई थिति-मिति भने थाहा छैन ।

उहाँलाई मैले सुरुदेखि नै एउटा अत्यन्त इमानदार, काम जिम्मेवारीपूर्ण र लगनशील भएर गर्ने, बुद्धिजीवी अध्ययनशील पात्रका रूपमा पाएँ । त्यसको आधारमा हामीले उहाँलाई कैयौँ जिम्मेवारीहरू दिँदै गयाँै । उहाँले बुद्धिजीवी फाँटमा भारतमा लामो समय काम गर्नुभयो । पछि नेपालमा बुद्धिजीवीको नेतृत्व नभएको महसुस गर्‍यौँ र खासगरी काठमाडौंमा उहाँलाई पठायौँ । उहाँले त्यहाँ पनि दिएको जिम्मेवारी पूरा गर्नुभयो । पछि संयुक्त राष्ट्रिय जनआन्दोलनको दौरानमा संयुक्त राष्ट्रिय जनआन्दोलन परिचालनका रूपमा उहाँले काम गर्नुभयो । उहाँले पार्टीले दिएका हरेक जिम्मेवारी क्षमतापूर्वक, इमानदारिताका साथ पूरा गर्नुहुन्थ्यो । उहाँको चारित्रिक मुख्य विशेषता भनेकै कुनै पनि कामलाई इमानदारिताका साथ लगनशील भएर गर्नु हो । 

यस्तो थियो माओवादीको धोबीघाट प्रतिबद्धता

पार्टीको अगाडि क्रान्तिकारी रुपान्तरण र पार्टी एकताको विकल्प छैन । त्यसको लागि हामीले अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय कम्युनिस्ट आन्दोलनको अनुभवको सश्लेषण एवम† प्रतिक्रान्तिका शिक्षाहरुलाई आत्मासात गरी सङगठनात्मक प्रणालीलाई सामूहिक नेतृत्वको अवधारणाको प्रयोग जनवादी केन्द्रीयताको अभ्यास र नया ढङगको पार्टी निमाण्र्ँलाई केन्द†रमा राखेका छौं । परन्तु पार्टीको मूल नेतृत्वमा देखापरेको नोकरशाही एकाधिकारवादी प्रवृत्तिले गर्दा आज पार्टी रुपान्तरित हुन सकिरहेको छैन । पार्टी पद्धतिविहीन बन्दै गइरहेको छ । बैठकहरु पटक-पटक अनिण्र्ँयको बन्दी बनिरहेका छन । केही निर्णहरु लिइयो भने पनि ती व्यवहारमा क्रियान्वयन भइरहेका छैनन† । पार्टी विधान तथा दस्तावेजहरु परित हुदै थीन्कदै गरिराखेका छन† । व्यवहारमा व्यक्तिवाद देखापर्दै गइरहेको छ ।

Do Bees Have Feelings?

Jason Castro 
If you’ve never watched bees carefully, you’re missing out. Looking up close as they gently curl and uncoil their tapered mouths toward food, you sense that they’re not just eating, but enjoying. Watch a bit more, and the hesitant flicks and sags of their antennae seem to convey some kind of emotion. Maybe annoyance? Or something like agitation?
Whether bees really experience any of these things is an open scientific question. It’s also an important one with implications for how we should treat not just bees, but the great majority of animals. Recently, studies by Geraldine Wright and her colleagues at Newcastle University in the UK have rekindled debate over these issues by showing that honeybees may experience something akin to moods.

On the Road

Ari N. Schulman
The air was soft,
the stars so fine,
the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
that I thought I was in a dream.

—Jack Kerouac

If we are to take seriously the promise these technologies make to facilitate our experience of new places, we must understand not only the technologists’ view, but our own, and ask how the new technology of location fits in with what we hope to get out of travel. And there is no greater sage for those hopes in the American conscience than Jack Kerouac. While On the Road’s reputation rather outstrips the literary merits of the book itself, the mythology surrounding it taps into our deeper aspirations for the possibility, freedom, and adventure granted by travel, and deserves to be taken seriously in understanding what we seem to want out of travel today.

माओवादीमा नातेदार नेताहरूको सञ्जाल

एकीकृत माओवादी त्यस्तो पार्टी हो, जसको केन्द्रीय तहमा अविवाहित नेताहरूको पंक्ति पनि ठूलो छ र आपसमा नाता-सम्बन्ध भएका नेताहरूको सञ्जाल पनि त्यत्तिकै परसम्म फैलिएको छ । केन्द्रीय तहमा राजनीतिक सम्बन्ध मात्रै होइन, नातेदारी सम्बन्ध हुनेहरू पनि थुप्रै छन् । राज्य समिति र जिल्ला समितिसम्म पुग्दा त पारिवारिक जालो झनै फराकिलो पाइन सक्छ । पार्टी सर्वोच्च नेतृत्व अर्थात् अध्यक्षदेखि विधायक सदस्य अर्थात् सभासद्सम्मको पारिवारिक जालो पनि कम फराकिलो छैन । 

माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्ड र केन्द्रीय सल्लाहकार टिबी पाठकबीच सम्धी साइनो छ । प्रचण्डपुत्री रेणु र पाठकपुत्र अर्जुनबीच विवाह भएको छ, उनीहरू पनि पार्टीमै छन् । त्यसो त अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डपत्नी सीता पौडेल पनि पार्टीको केन्द्रीय सल्लाहकार सदस्य छिन् । उपाध्यक्ष मोहन वैद्य 'किरण' र पार्टी पोलिटब्युरो सदस्य एवं पूर्वसूचना तथा सञ्चारमन्त्री अग्निप्रसाद सापकोटाबीच पनि सम्धीको नातो छ ।

We won't join govt until keys handover row is settled: Gajurel

REPUBLICA
Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya 'Kiran' faction in the UCPN (Maoist) decided to stay out of government over the key handover row though it has put off all protest programs until September 18.

In this context, Republica´s Kiran Pun caught up with Secretary Chandra Prakash Gajurel 'Gaurab', an influential member of the Baidya faction, Sunday evening to solicit his views on the faction´s future strategies. Excerpts:
You were supposed to get the berths of deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs. Why did you not join the government?
We are not in favor of joining the government until the issue of keys handover is settled. We wanted the issue to get settled first before the government got full shape. But Prachandaji (Pushpa Kamal Dahal) and Baburamji (the prime minister) did not agree. This has closed the doors for us to join the government.