Friday, September 2, 2011

Dahal sends PLA commanders to cantonments

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Sept 3: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday sent all the seven divisional commanders to their cantonments, cutting short their stay in Kathmandu in view of the likely untoward incidents in cantonments in the wake of the row in the party over the key handover issue.

The division commanders had arrived in the capital for a general staff meeting. The discussion on technical aspects of integration on Saturday. But the meetings have been canceled as they had to return to their respective cantonments on Friday.

“We returned to our respective cantonments following the party chairman´s directive,” Suk Bahadur Roka Magar, division commander at the second division of the PLA Cantonment, told Republica.

On Thursday, the division commanders had grilled Dahal about their future, pressing the party leadership to come up with a concrete plan on integration and rehabilitation.

According to Magar, their meeting on Saturday was to take a concrete decision on the technical aspects of integration.

“The meeting was called on Saturday to take concrete decision on the technical aspects --ranking, fixing responsibilities of commanders who would not opt for integration,” Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, divisional commander at the sixth division of the PLA told Republica.

     

       
      

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