नारायणकाजी श्रेष्ठविरुद्ध प्रचण्ड र बाबुरामको तीर

शुक्रबार १७ जेष्ठ, २०७०
कृष्ण ढुंगाना
काठमाडौं — एमाओवादी उपाध्यक्ष नारायणकाजी श्रेष्ठले गणतन्त्र दिवसको अवसरमा बिहीबार साँझ आयोजना गरेको चियापान कार्यक्रममा आफ्नै पार्टी अध्यक्ष पुष्पकमल दाहालको सचिवालय टोलीलाई कार्यक्रमस्थलमा निषेध गरिएको छ। अध्यक्ष दाहालसँगै हरिसिद्धिस्थित श्रेष्ठ निवास पुगेका पुत्र प्रकाश दाहाल, सचिवालय प्रमुख एवम् एमाओवादी केन्द्रीय सदस्य सन्तु दराई, निजी सचिव चुडामणि खड्का तथा प्रेस संयोजक शिव खकुरेललाई प्रवेश रोक लगाइएको हो।

थप्पड हान्नेलाई दाहालले माफी दिएनन्, तारिक हटाइदिन कुँवरको आग्रह

काठमाडौं — एमाओवादी अध्यक्ष पुष्पकमल दाहालले आफूलाई थप्पड हान्ने पदम कुँवरलाई माफी दिने बताए पनि कुँवर अझै सार्वजनिक मुद्दा खेपिरहेका छन्। १५-१५ दिनमा जिल्ला प्रशान कार्यालय धाउँदा आफूलाई मानसिक यातना भएको कुँवरले बताएका छन्।
आफूलाई थप्पड हान्ने पदम कुँवरप्रति बदलाको भावना नभएको भन्दै दाहालले क्षमावादान् दिने सार्वजनिक रुपमै बताएका थिए। मौखिक माफी दिए पनि अध्यक्ष उनले व्यवहारिक रुपमा कारवाही जारी राखेको सन्दर्भमा पदम कुँवरले शुक्रबार सम्वाद डबलीमा पत्रकार सम्मेलन गरी मुद्दा फिर्ता लिइदिन आग्रह गरेका हुन्।

YCL to be reactivated as CA poll nears

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, May 31: Just ahead of the fresh election to the constituent assembly (CA), the UCPN (Maoist) is going to reactive the Young Communist League (YCL) as its ´additional force´. The Maoists plan to form YCL committees in every village and city neighborhood under the slogan of ´one tol one YCL committee´. The Maoists have been projecting the YCL as its ´additional organization´ rather than as a youth wing.

छापामारको आँखामा उमा

ध्रुवराज अधिकारी

सहरमा ‘उमा’को चर्चा थियो । हामीभन्दा अगाडिपट्टिको लहरमा उनै उमा रहिछन् । चलचित्रको आधाआधी पुगेपछि मात्रै उनलाई देखेँ । ‘ए, हिरोइन पनि यहीँ रहिछन्’ मुखबाट अनायसै फुस्कियो ।

Dahal steering party toward mass base

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, May 25: Recently, CPN-UML politburo members Ram Chandra Jha and Urmila Aryal and actress Rekha Thapa joined the UCPN (Maoist). Earlier also, many UML leaders, cadres and people from other parties joined the UCPN (Maoist). Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is welcoming newcomers mostly from the UML.

UML leaders entry likely to create deeper rifts within UCPN (Maoist)

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, May 24: The recent defection of CPN-UML politburo members to the UCPN (Maoist) has not only sounded alarm bells for the UML but is equally likely to create deeper rifts within the existing factions of the UCPN (Maoist).

With UML politburo members Ram Chandra Jha and Urmila Aryal joining the UCPN (Maoist), some of the Maoist leaders fear that the entry of UML leaders may have long-term implications for the party itself.

Fate of disappeared ignored: Kin

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, May 22: The Maoist parties --Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led UCPN (Maoist) and Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Maoist --have remembered their disappeared cadres at functions organised Tuesday at their respective party head offices at Perisdanda and Kopundol, on the occasion of the day of the disappeared.

Disqualified PLA find solace in business ventures

Januka Dhakal with her son

 photo and text KIRAN PUN
DANG, May 14: Resham Pun, 24, had no home to return to when he was discharged from the Maoist cantonment four years ago after being disqualified as a minor and late recruit in the People´s Liberation Army (PLA).

Resham Pun

आदिवासी जनजातिको नेतृत्व कुमाललाई

काठमाडौँ- चितवनको सौराहामा भएको आदिवासी जनजाति महासङ्घको आठौँ राष्ट्रिय महाधिवेशनले तीन वर्षीय कार्यकालका लागि नगेन्द्र कुमालको अध्यक्षतामा नयाँ कार्यसमिति चयन गरेको छ। महास‍ंघको उपाध्यक्षमा तराईतर्फ राम अवतार मण्डल, हिमालतर्फ डण्डु शेर्पा, पहाडतर्फ सुर्यबहादुर भुजेल, भित्री तराईतर्फ तपिया दराई, महिलातर्फ रोश्नी मेचे निर्वाचित भएका छन्।

polls not possible without broader political consensus: Maoist

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, May 13: Further hardening its stance, the CPN-Maoist has ruled out the possibility of Constituent Assembly (CA) election in mid-November without broader political consensus and has set a three-point condition to hold talks with the government. “

"The three-point conditions are only for holding talks with the government. Discussion on our participation in election at this point is meaningless because even the constituent parties of the High-Level Political Committee aren´t prepared for electi”n," CPN-Maoist Secretary Netra Bikram Chand told Republic“. "The four parties only want to deepen the crisis. Their commitment to election is just an eyewa”h."

Hope and despair at Beldangi: The angst of the Bhutanese refugees

Durga Khanal with her child at the hut of Beldangi-2, Bhutnese refugee camp

TEXT & PHOTOS: KIRAN PUN
“I sometimes wonder how it would feel to get to see my parents’ faces even if it comes at the price of getting killed,” says Hast Bahadur Rai, 44, a refugee from Bhutan. Rai had to flee the country with his wife and children. But his parents did not, as they were living in a village that was unaffected by the conflict in southern Bhutan. “Someday, I hope I’ll be able to see their faces. I pray for it. I dream about it,” says Rai.

भवँराले चुम्न नभ्याएको सिरिसको फूल

२३ वैशाख, काठमाडौं । राजधानीमा यतिखेर सिरिसको फूलको चर्चा व्यापक बनेको छ । एकातिर साहित्यकार पारिजातको चर्चित उपन्यास ‘सिरिसको फूल’मा निर्मित चलचित्रको प्रशर्दनी सुरु भएको छ भने अर्कोतर्फ चलचित्रको प्रदर्शनीकै बेला पारेर राजधानीका सडक छेऊमा ढकमक्क सिरिस फुलेर भूइँमा झरिरहेको छ । विशेषगरी नारायणहिटी वरपरको दृश्य मनमोहक बनेको छ ।

'Disappeared' ex-PLA man held in dual benefit case

BHANUBHAKTA NIRAULA
SOLUKHUMBU, May 3: A man who was ´disappeared´ by the state during the Maoist insurgency has been found to have holed up in a Maoist cantonment for several years.
The police have arrested Sita Ram Rai, 24, a resident of Deusa VDC-5 of Solukhumbu district, as his father had accepted Rs 100,000, which is given by the government to the families of those who went missing during the war, even though Sita Ram was drawing his salary as a former Maoist combatant in a Sindhuli-based cantonment.