Maoist politburo members part ways to meet again

BHAKTAPUR, May 7 -
The Politburo meeting of the Unified CPN (Maoist) held on Thursday to decide its future strategy after the party's disengagement from the government was put off until Saturday.
At today's meeting that lasted for about seven hours at Training Center of Agricultural Development Bank in Bode, Bhaktapur, Maoist politburo members reported about the latest political situation.
Echoing with the party's earlier stand, the politburo members reiterated that President Dr Ram Baran Yadav's decision to reinstate Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal was unconstitutional and urged the party leadership to take forward other procedures only after President Dr Ram Baran Yadav retracts his decision.
The politburo members sought the leaderships' attention to stick its stance on thwarting the parliamentary business and the government formation unless the president corrects his decision, Maoist Politburo member Devendra Poudel said. However, the Maoists, who are infuriated after its pursuit to sack CoAS Katawal was not supported even by its coalition partner CPN-UML, has not formulated any line of attack against its political rivals.
Earlier, the Maoist Secretariat meeting had decided that the politburo would finalise the party's future strategy.
The 45-member politburo is the powerful body of the Maoists after its secretariat. Claiming that the status quoits and regressive powers have began forging alliance to launch, in its own word, "counter revolution" with the support of foreigners, the Maoists are said to make a solid plan to intensify their struggle from the parliament and the streets.
The Maoists have been staging struggle from the streets and the House saying that President Dr Ram Baran Yadav's order to reinstate Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal, whom the Maoist-led government coalition had given retirement, is 'unconstitutional' and was against the civilian supremacy.
The former rebel Unified CPN (Maoist), which emerged as the single largest party in the CA election last year after joining a peace deal in 2006, said that they pulled out of the government eight months after joining it, saying that President's "unconstitutional" move has breached the civilian supremacy and has created a parallel authority.
Posted on: 2009-05-07 07:35:32