Kathmandu, August 21: Claiming that efforts are underway to isolate his party in the name of democracy, Maoist chief Prachanda has said the former rebels’ ongoing anti-government agitation is aimed at “capturing power” and establishing a people’s republic in Nepal.
Maoists had recently launched an agitation against President Ram Baran Yadav’s move in May to reinstate army chief Rukmangad Katwal, who was sacked by the then Prachanda Cabinet.
“We are not backtracking from our aim which was set while launching the decade-long ‘people’s war’,” the Maoist supremo told his cadres during a training programme in Dharan in eastern Nepal.
“As our ultimate aim is to establish ‘people’s republic’ and capture power, we have been focusing our efforts on intensifying the ‘People’s Revolution’,” he was quoted as saying by ‘Rajdhani’ daily.
–PTI