Pushpa Kamal Dahal
UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has claimed that conflict-era cases are being revived to bar the "popular Maoist leaders" from contesting the upcoming elections.
Addressing an orientation programme organised by the Young Communist League's Newa State Committee in the capital on Wednesday, Dahal said the UCPN (M) would be forced to launch revolt if conflict-era cases were revived. Though he did not pinpoint any particular case, the Maoist chairman was clearly hinting at the Krishna Prasad Adhikari murder which is now being probed by the government following an order from the National Human Rights Commission. Adhikari's parents have been staging hunger strike at for weeks now demanding justice.
"There will be a revolt if such cases are revived. Nepali people are not going to accept any action taken in a traditional way instead of resolving them through Truth and Reconciliation Commission," the Maoist chairman warned.
Senior party leader Baburam Bhattarai also issued similar warning saying the party "will not keep mum if conflict-era cases are revived".
Bhattarai also instructed the YCL to play the kind of role it had played in the last elections to make sure that the party gets majority.
