Maoists withdraw strike
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KATHMANDU, MAY 07 - After six long days of stringent general strike, the main opposition party UCPN (Maoist) withdrew its nationwide strike evening paying heed to the plight from various quarters of the society and international community on Friday.
A meeting of the Maoist Standing Committee took the decision to this effect late this evening.
Talking to reporters after the meeting Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the party decided to "put off" the strike keeping in mind the hardships of the people and also that the decision had nothing to do with any external pressures.
He also charged that conspiracies were hatched to instigate confrontation and violence between the people during the course of banda.
The Maoists, however, have come up with new programmes; they will stage seperate demonstrations across the nation tomorrow from 12 p.m. and converge into a 'centralised demonstration,' and picket the Singha Durbar and District Administration Offices across the nation on Sunday.
As the agitation was initiated for peace and constitution, we will resort to such forms of general strike again if our demands are not met, Dahal said.
Upon asked if the European Union and America exerted pressure to take the decision, Dahal out rightly refuted it saying that the decision was taken chiefly for easing the lives of people and to foil the conspiracies to ignite confrontations between people.
As long as the incumbent coalition government remains, there will not be a new constitution, Dahal claimed. The Maoist Chieftain also said that the party's form of next agitation, which he claimed will be more intense, will be decided by the next standing committee meeting.
Meanwhile, the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries welcomed the Maoists' decision.
On May 1, the Maoists staged a massive show of power in the capital marking the International May Day for what they called peace and constitution and brought the nation to a standstill with their stringent indefinite general strike from May 2 to topple the incumbent government and take the reins of new national government.
Posted on: 2010-05-07 09:25
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