Maoist cadres break Kings' statues
The statue of late King Birandra at Dhamboji Chowk in Nepalgunj has become the latest target of continued vandalism carried out by the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL).
Tuesday morning, a group of activists of the YCL and All Nepal National Independent Student Union (Revolutionary) dismantled Birendra’s statue. They also announced to erect statues of martyrs in place of the late King’s statute. Last week, YCL members had brought down the statue of late King Tribhuvan in Nepalgunj. Police arrested Bhakta Singh Bohara, Kalu Pandey and Ram Kumar Gupta in connection with the vandalism. The YCL members also vandalised the statues of King Birendra in Ram Bazaar and Birat Chowk and King Mahendra's statue in Ratna Nagar in Pokhara Tuesday morning. Similarly, the Maoist cadres also brought down the statue of King Mahendra at Kalimati Chowk in Kathmandu today.
Tuesday morning, a group of activists of the YCL and All Nepal National Independent Student Union (Revolutionary) dismantled Birendra’s statue. They also announced to erect statues of martyrs in place of the late King’s statute. Last week, YCL members had brought down the statue of late King Tribhuvan in Nepalgunj. Police arrested Bhakta Singh Bohara, Kalu Pandey and Ram Kumar Gupta in connection with the vandalism. The YCL members also vandalised the statues of King Birendra in Ram Bazaar and Birat Chowk and King Mahendra's statue in Ratna Nagar in Pokhara Tuesday morning. Similarly, the Maoist cadres also brought down the statue of King Mahendra at Kalimati Chowk in Kathmandu today.
Meanwhile, CPN (Maoist) chairman Prachanda and CPN-UML leader Bamdev Gautam held discussions in Pokhara this morning on a broad range of issues including establishing a republican set up and forging a leftist alliance. In the meeting, the Maoist supremo requested UML leader Gautam to garner support for the republican proposal that Maoist MP’s tabled at the parliament Sunday and intensify homework for a leftist unity. Gautam is learnt to have taken this request by Prachanda in a positive light and has promised that he would put this before his party’s high command.
Prachanda had left for Pokhara yesterday evening on a personal visit while the UML leader is there to attend a party function. After the meeting which went for half an hour, Prachanda along with his wife and few aides left for the idyllic village of Ghandruk in Kaski where he will remain for the next couple of days. The talk of forging unity between Nepal's left parties is gaining momentum of late as they have become united in their criticism of Nepali Congress (NC). Despite differences between the Maoists and CPN-UML, they have lately agreed to align and form a joint committee to sort out and solve the problems among their cadres at the grass root level.
Source: Nepal News, May 15, 2007
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