KATHMANDU, MAR 27 -
UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Saturday that Nepali and Indian leaders’ remarks supporting Nepal as a Hindu state are against the federal republic and national sovereignty.

Dahal said that former Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajanath Singh had asked him to lobby for the Hindu state during the funeral procession of former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at Pashupati Aryaghat. “A day after talking to me, the Indian leader spoke to media in support of the Hindu state,” said Dahal at the inauguration ceremony of the third national convention of Unified Tamang Rastriya Mukti Morcha in the Capital. “I told him that it’s better to separate religion from the state,” said the Maoist leader.  Dahal said remarks lobbying for the Hindu state are reactionary forces’ designs to sabotage the constitution-drafting and the peace process by making the Constituent Assembly defunct.

The former prime minister stressed the need to launch a Kathmandu Valley-centric protest to root out the reactionaries. Dahal said the party will wage a struggle from the street, though it won’t be a “guerrilla war.” He stressed the need to make the valley the movement’s ‘base camp’, stating that Rukum and Rolpa were the base camps during the Maoist people’s war.

Posted on: 2010-03-28 07:48

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