• Unmasked

• Indian solidarity with Nepali Maoist

• Who is behind Tibetan ‘protests’ in Nepal?

• Mutiny in Police camps

• Former crown prince leaves Nepal

• Prachanda gets SAARC invitation

INTERVIEW

• We had to struggle hard – Nandakishor Pun ‘Pasang’, Deputy Commander of PLA

• Nepali Maoist are connected wirh people - (Rudi Rinaldi, general secretary of the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)

REPORT

• Marvellous Bhairabkunda - Dipak Sapkota

OPINION

LITRERATURE

• Literature of People’s War from the Philippines - Florentino A. Iniego, JR

• Lal-Salam – By Dr.  Jagadish Chandra Bhandari

INTERNATIONAL/HISTORY

•  ‘That is the way a fighter for socialism dies’

EDITORIAL

No blackmailing, please!

  “When the old is dying but the new cannot be born, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear” Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks

If the present transition is not settled by progressive thinking and planning, no independent pro-people Republic can be established. Even though it is two and half months after the election, and a month after the republic has been implemented, yet still no President has been chosen. The obstacles to progress are, externally, Indian expansionism, and internally, the Nepal Congress. The NC and India are outwardly in favour of the Republic, but essentially they are trying to stall the progress of the country, to keep things in favour of the status quo. They have totally violated the people’s mandate and betrayed the Nepali people.

The drafting of a new constitution should be the principal issue at the moment. Instead of paving a way forward, the NC and some self appointed Madhesi leaders are setting unnecessary obstacles in the path. The issue of the type of autonomous region that will form the new Federal Nepal must be seriously debated among the people. However, these parties are trying to blackmail in order to benefit from the critical condition of the nation at present. The indigenous nations in Terai, such as Tharus, say that creating a single Madhesh region in the whole of Terai plains would be to simply continue the old centralised feudal state from Kathmandu.

The Terai region comprises of many different groups with various historical, linguistic, cultural and social backgrounds. If it is made into a single autonomous state; the majority of the Terai dwelling people would not gain desired advantages; only a handful of Madhesi leaders and Indian rulers would benefit. To sacrifice the people’s will and the national interest just to satisfy the desire of a few ‘leaders’ will ultimately lead to another rebellion. The leaders should stand up for the oppressed people and for national existence.

The rights of the various ethnic groups must be established. Moreover, the issues that should be decided after long debates in the Constituent Assembly cannot be decided forcefully right now. The NC is backing the ‘madhesi leaders’ demands as the NC has to step down from power. The CPN (M) has proposed Ram Raja Prasad Singh for the presidency, but the ‘Madhesi’ leaders’ are dancing to the tune of the NC, and obstructing Singh to be the president. This proves that the ‘Madhesi leaders’, who claim to represent Madhesh, are only blackmailing Madhesi sentiment for their own selfish motives. Their behaviour has shown them to be the playthings of the NC and of foreign powers.

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