‘CPNM may go underground’

THT Online

PALPA: The chairman of a party that split from UCPN-Maoist and formed a new party after revolting said it might go underground if necessary.

Speaking with reporters in Palpa, chairman of CPN-Maoist Matrika Yadav on Friday said that it was not the right time to be underground and he expected that the government would not suppress his party's ‘peaceful revolt’. He made it clear that his party was not in favour of disintegrating the country and neither was it trying to merge with underground Terai outfits. He claimed that his party was forming an army without arms. However, he warned that if the government suppresses them they would be compelled to seize the weapons from the police stationed in different rural villages.

In another context Yadav said that he wanted to hold a debate in the parliament over his membership in the CA. He also said that he had written to the CA office regarding the issuing of his membership.

Yadav who spent most of his time criticising UCPN-Maoist described the demand for civilian supremacy raised by them as power lust. Yadav accused former PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal of inducting a foreign national in his cabinet in a bid to become the PM.