In a front page news titled ‘India put pressure to make Bhattarai PM: Dahal’, Nagarik national daily reported Dahal ‘revealed it’ the central members of Maoist’s sister organization – the All Nepal People’s Cultural Federation.[break]
“India has repeatedly sent proposal saying that appointing Baburam Bhattarai as PM would solve problems,” the Nepali-language newspaper quoted Dahal as saying.
“Not because I have conflict with Baburam-ji,” he added. “India is playing on the internal difference on the next man to lead the government.”
Bhattarai was not present in the program. In a scandalous video tape of Dahal released by Nepal Army, Dahal had said that India had pressured the party to withdraw the action taken on Bhattarai couple some five years back.
During the program, Dahal also said that after the end of the monarchy, the next fight should be against the Indian imperialism and broker bourgeois beliefs. He also accused India and other parties of jointly trying to exercise ‘parliamentary Bihari republic’.
“The Indian imperialists and broker bourgeois have united,” he reportedly said in the program. “Yesterday, Narayanhiti commanded as the power center, now it’s centered in Delhi.”
Click here to listen to the speech released by Nagarik [Nepali].
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