Issuing a press statement Monday, the CPN-Maoist also accused UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice-chairman Baburam Bhattarai of engaging in anti-people and anti-country activities and being ´stooges´ of ´Indian expansionist´ and ´world imperialist´ forces. [break]
“Our party rejects all the propaganda of some media about unification between the two Maoist parties. There is no possibility of uniting with the ´renegade´ and ´stooge´ UCPN (Maoist),” reads the statement issued by CPN-Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya.
According to the statement, news reports about the party unification are baseless and fictitious. The statement also claimed that the two Maoist parties are running in exactly opposite directions, with their own separate political lines.
After the Hetauda general convention held in February, the UCPN (Maoist) formally converted itself into a parliamentary party, abandoning its former line of ´state capture by armed force.´ Similarly, after the Kathmandu general convention held in January, the CPN-Maoist has adopted ´people´s revolt on the foundation of people´s war´ as its line. After the party split, the leaders and cadres of the two parties have been crossing over from the one party to the other.
UCPN (Maoist) leaders in particular have been saying that party unification will take place soon as the CPN-Maoist broke away only because it did not get posts within the party.
“We want to make public the fact that we have never talked with the UCPN (Maoist) about party unity and we have not taken any decision regarding that,” reads the statement.
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