CPN-Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya on Monday said his party will participate in the constitution writing and government formation processes if the major poliitcal parties agree to hold a round-table instead of the Constituent Assembly (CA).

Concluding that the CA has gone to the hands of ‘reactionaries’, he said his party should struggle outside the CA until a ‘progressive’ constitution is ensured. “The CA election has been dominated by regressive forces while the force that emerged first in the previous election had faded. Our party should not join the CA to approve regressive actions and nullify past achievements,” Baidya said.

Briefing party leaders on the current political development on the second day of the party’s ongoing Central Committee meeting in the Capital, Baidya talked about the imminent danger the victorious parties face while acting under the foreign direction.

Regarding speculation about the party’s unification with the UCPN (Maoist) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Baidya said the parties are poles apart to reunite under the current circumstances. He, however, said they could forge a working alliance with the UCPN (Maoist) if the former rebel corrects ‘itself’.

He said the prospect of the ‘working alliance’ too looks unlikely as Dahal is under ‘enormous pressure from within and out of party’ to join the CA. Baidya has also incorporated these views in a six-page political document he presented during the CC meet on Sunday. He also presented party’s six-month programme during the meeting.

Besides Biadya, fourteen other leaders, including party Secretary Netra Bikram Chand, briefed on party’s past and future political course. Unlike previous speakers, Chand admitted party’s failure to properly organise the anti-election protests.

“However, there should be no doubt that the protest has taken the party to a new height. The party has made a historical achievement by staying away from the CA election held through an illegal process,” a CC member quoted Chand as saying. Chand said that the party should collaborate with other disgruntled parties, including the UCPN (Maoist), if the latter abstain from the CA.

Chand also stressed on the urgent need for the party, in collaboration with other likeminded forces, to lead a fresh protest against the CA. Other leaders, including politburo member Dharmendra Bastola and CC members Hari Bahadur Chuman, Hiramani Dhuki, Naresh Bhandari and Ram Prasad Timilsina, also addressed the closed session on Monday. - Ekantipur

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