KATHMANDU, AUG 19 - CPN-Maoist Politburo member and International Bureau In-Charge Dharmendra Bastola accused India of playing curicial role in splitting the UCPN (Maoist). He claimed that India hatched conspiracies to split the Maoists after the party initiated ideological and political struggle against it.
The Maoist leader made such claims while addressing an assembly organised by Nepali Janasarokar Samaj Hong Kong on Sunday. He is the first leader of the breakaway faction of the Maoists led by hardliner leader Mohan Baidya. He charged that India has been trying to mislead the Nepali politics.
“The president himself has admitted that all the games have been dictated from India,” said the irate looking leader Bastola. “Even though some Indian leaders pretentiously wish for development and welfare of Nepal, they do not really want it from their heart,” he added.
He went on to say that India, which harbours imperialist and expansionist mindset, ruined the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madhesi parties.
The CPN-Maoist leader remarked that India became successful in achieving its long-cherished intention of ‘hijacking’ the UCPN (Maoist) after getting support from party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai. He further claimed that the contract to renovate Tribhuvan International Airport and Bilateral Investment Promotion Protection Agreement, among other pacts, were part of that ploy.
“Two leaders [Dahal and Bhattarai] are deceiving the party and people by talking about revolution in public while hobnobbing with Indian expansionists behind the curtain,” leader Bastola charged. He accused that Maoist Chairman Dahal and Baburam Bhattarai do not have clear stand, policy and objective. “That’s why the people have expectations of a clear political roadmap from the new party,” he added.
He claimed the deal to appoint Bhattarai as the prime minister was already made with India before the Maoists decided to pick him as the prime ministerial candidate. “The former Indian ambassador, Rakesh Sood, played the role of middle man to make it happen,” he added.