From: "Magnus Bernhardsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:15:45 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal: Left parties may have contacted Maoist leader http://www.kantipuronline.com/kol_news.html#Left parties may have contacted Maoist leader Left parties may have contacted Maoist leader KOL Report BHADRAPUR, Aug 16 - There are suspicions that leaders of seven left parties, including the main opposition CPN-UML, may have contacted a high ranking Maoist leader in India recently. A source close to left parties said Thursday that the seven leaders had contacted a Maoist leader in the Indian city of Siliguri in West Bengal state Wednesday evening. Their talks may have gone on until Thursday morning. The source said the leaders, CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, CPN-ML Bam Dev Gautam, Mohan Bikram Singh of Mashal, Narayan Man Bijhukcche of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Lila Mani Pokhrel of United People's Front, Ishwor Pokhrel and Chitra Bahadur K.C of CPN-UML had made their way to Siliguri Wednesday evening. Some of them, including Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on a flight from Bhadrapur this morning. The source however, did not say who was present from the Maoist side nor have the Maoists confirmed that they have contacted left party leaders. There are also speculations that the Maoist side may have been represented by Prachanda and the talks focused on Government-Maoist dialogue as well as Left party alliance. But talking to Kantipur FM radio station, Lila Mani Pokhrel denied that they had contacted the maoist leadership. He did not elaborate on the reason for his visit. Communist leaders in West Bengal, which is considered a bastion of Communism in India, have said they did not hold talks with Nepali leaders. (rk) "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." Fidel Castro "The Marxist-Leninist doctrine on class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat affirms the role of violence in revolution, makes a distinction between unjust, counter-revolutionary violence and just, revolutionary violence, between the violence of the exploiting classes, and that of the masses." General Vo Nguyen Giap "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao Tse-Tung _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
