11-19-2006, 01:31 AM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Prachanda as President?
Comrade Prachanda, who is gearing up to take up the mantle of an executive President of Nepal, hinted that the Himalayan kingdom would be a capitalist State. He also made it clear that Nepal would have cordial, fruitful relations with India.
In his first 'open' visit to India after launching resistance movement for 10 years in his country, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as Prachanda, on Saturday outlined his vision of Nepal at the ongoing Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in the Capital on Saturday.Â
<b>"The Nepalese people want to overthrow the Monarchy and establish a capitalistic society in the country," </b>he said, adding that this would be in the best interest of Nepal.
<b>"I would request the feudal forces to transform themselves at least as capitalist or bourgeoisie,"</b> his number two in the party Babu Ram Bhattari supplemented.
In his interaction with the media and the strategic community in Delhi, Prachanda said, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) was neither going to toe the line the Communists had taken earlier, nor were they preparing for an October Revolution-like event. "I would like to see a presidential system in Nepal removing the King," he said. Delivering his speech at the summit, he said: <b>"It should be an executive presidency and if the people want it I would love to be the President." However, he clarified that neither he nor his brass were going to join the interim Government.</b>
"We know the interim Government cannot do much. If I or our top leaders join it, people could be disillusioned with us also," he said. At the same time, he said his second rung leaders would, indeed, be there in the interim government. A sun-tanned Prachanda added confidently that people will adhere to his vision of "New and Changed" Nepal.
<b>"King Gyanendra would be an ordinary citizen of the country and his properties would be confiscated in the form of national wealth,"</b> he said.
In another appearance at Observers Research Foundation, he said the ratio of reduction in the strength of his People's Liberation Army would be consummate with the reduction of force of the existing Royal Nepalese Army.
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<b>"We cannot believe the Royal Army, so we will keep the minimum force and weapons with us under the supervision of UN," </b>he clarified. He said his party was making an experiment in Nepal that was new for the global Communist movement.
"We want competitive politics. If Lenin was alive for some more years, he would have moved towards political competition and that would have made the Soviet societies more vibrant and prosperous," he said, departing from the Stalinist ideology of classical Communism.
<b>Observers feel an executive presidency would suit Prachanda as he could then directly win elections for Presidentship with no leader of his reach an organizational network exists in Nepal.</b>
About Indian interests in Nepal, <b>Prachanda said the so-called "Red Corridor" was never the policy of his party and the clash of interests on water usage on the Indo-Nepal border was the handiwork of Monarchy." </b>
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This is bad news. Commie dictator.
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Prachanda as President?
Comrade Prachanda, who is gearing up to take up the mantle of an executive President of Nepal, hinted that the Himalayan kingdom would be a capitalist State. He also made it clear that Nepal would have cordial, fruitful relations with India.
In his first 'open' visit to India after launching resistance movement for 10 years in his country, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as Prachanda, on Saturday outlined his vision of Nepal at the ongoing Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in the Capital on Saturday.Â
<b>"The Nepalese people want to overthrow the Monarchy and establish a capitalistic society in the country," </b>he said, adding that this would be in the best interest of Nepal.
<b>"I would request the feudal forces to transform themselves at least as capitalist or bourgeoisie,"</b> his number two in the party Babu Ram Bhattari supplemented.
In his interaction with the media and the strategic community in Delhi, Prachanda said, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) was neither going to toe the line the Communists had taken earlier, nor were they preparing for an October Revolution-like event. "I would like to see a presidential system in Nepal removing the King," he said. Delivering his speech at the summit, he said: <b>"It should be an executive presidency and if the people want it I would love to be the President." However, he clarified that neither he nor his brass were going to join the interim Government.</b>
"We know the interim Government cannot do much. If I or our top leaders join it, people could be disillusioned with us also," he said. At the same time, he said his second rung leaders would, indeed, be there in the interim government. A sun-tanned Prachanda added confidently that people will adhere to his vision of "New and Changed" Nepal.
<b>"King Gyanendra would be an ordinary citizen of the country and his properties would be confiscated in the form of national wealth,"</b> he said.
In another appearance at Observers Research Foundation, he said the ratio of reduction in the strength of his People's Liberation Army would be consummate with the reduction of force of the existing Royal Nepalese Army.
Â
<b>"We cannot believe the Royal Army, so we will keep the minimum force and weapons with us under the supervision of UN," </b>he clarified. He said his party was making an experiment in Nepal that was new for the global Communist movement.
"We want competitive politics. If Lenin was alive for some more years, he would have moved towards political competition and that would have made the Soviet societies more vibrant and prosperous," he said, departing from the Stalinist ideology of classical Communism.
<b>Observers feel an executive presidency would suit Prachanda as he could then directly win elections for Presidentship with no leader of his reach an organizational network exists in Nepal.</b>
About Indian interests in Nepal, <b>Prachanda said the so-called "Red Corridor" was never the policy of his party and the clash of interests on water usage on the Indo-Nepal border was the handiwork of Monarchy." </b>
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This is bad news. Commie dictator.