Always leaders of the United CPN Maoist (UCPN-M) are making confusing remarks. Just recently, Maoist supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal remarked that the ongoing political deadlock will be resolved immediately after the Tihar festival and by that time a high-level networking will also be formed. On the other hand, the party’s vice chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai has been saying that there is very less chance of ice breaking of the political deadlock, hence, nationwide agitation will obviously take place immediately after Tihar. The UCPN-M, from the beginning, is saying that yet another decisive war is inevitable to establish people’s proletariat. A central level Maoist leader, who spent many years in jail after he was arrested in India and extradited to the Nepal government, said that at any cost, people’s proletariat will be established as this is the final goal of the party. He also claimed that after establishment of the people’s proletariat, all the private properties will be nationalized. “We don’t believe in the parliamentary democracy as the parliament is the place where dog’s meat will be sold by exhibiting goat’s head”, he said.
Strategy:The present strategy of the Maoist party is to bargain as much as it is possible. The other strategy is not to say the real goal of the party to the public and always make confusing remarks. The present strategy is to make fool of all and implementing the “one step backward two step forward” policy. As per the strategy, the Maoists are continuously disrupting the CA affairs giving the impression that the constitution cannot be written on time, which would create a political mess. Furthermore, the party is giving the impression that endorsement of the budget for the current fiscal year cannot be possible due to the ongoing disruption of the CA affairs.
However, a political analyst, who is known to be close to the South, claimed that finally the UCPN-M will endorse the budget even by allowing the CA affairs to run smoothly even if just for one day. In fact, he explained, the Maoists are the rebellion force and they are now in a win, win position. The inner strategy of the party is to achieve the goal set by the party and that is the introduction of a people’s proletariat.
The other strategy is to weaken state organizations such as Nepal Army, police force, civil service and other professional organizations through infiltration and creating division in such organizations.As per this plan, the Maoist politicized the Nepal Army, which is known as a professional organ of the nation. Now, there is strong penetration in the Nepal Police, Armed Police and civil service sectors. Besides, in the process of capturing organizations, a large number of Maoist cadres have taken membership of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists. In the same manner, one cadre has taken membership of different organizations, including student union, women’s organization, youths’ organization, trade union and so on. Likewise, for propaganda war, the party has been operating TV channels, a large number of FM Radio stations and weekly and daily journals in an organized manner. According to a journalist associated with a Maoist mouthpiece, all the expenses for producing the newspaper are contributed by the party and the party directly collects advertisement and other revenues. Journalists receive salary directly from the party. It is believed that the UCPN-M is the party which is running the largest number of newspapers in the country. Ballot not bullet:In this regard, whatsoever the leaders are saying, the Maoists are going to accept the new constitution and also contribute to bring the new constitution in time even though the constitution is against the party goal. To recall, earlier too, the Maoists were protesting against the CA elections and there was general impression that the CA election was not possible. But at the last hours, the Maoists participated in the elections. Westerners and Indians, including our political parties were predicting that the Maoists would not get more than 50/60 seats in the direct elections. Contrary to that, the Maoists emerged as the largest party in the CA.Although the UCPN-M has not totally given-up its armed struggle and if cornered from all sides, they are going to re-launch an armed struggle against the traditional enemies, but the party has given priority to capture state-power through ballot. The UCPN-M has carried out a survey on how they can bag two-thirds majority in the upcoming general elections after introduction of the new constitution. The present scenario is that the Nepali Congress organization is limited within urban areas and the same is true of the UML, as most of its grassroots cadres have already joined the Maoist party. Presently too, none of the political leaders, except from the UCPN-M, are able to go to the villages. In fact, the UCPN-M has developed the strategy of not allowing any of the political parties to carry out political programmes in villages. This strategy has been initiated by the party considering the upcoming general elections. Muscle, arms, threats, embargo:The UCPN-M has been highly encouraged from the CA result. The volunteers from international and local election monitoring groups are found roaming around urban areas only and they cannot observe the booth capturing incidents through muscle, arms, threats and embargo on the candidates and voters from other political parties. In the last CA elections, the party had maintained the strategy of “those dead should be made alive and those who were in foreign employment should be present to cast their votes”. This was the strategy of casting false votes in the name of those who were already dead and who were out of the village. The party has already mobilized its cadres in villages by giving such a responsibility to them. Achieving final goal: After bagging two-thirds majority in the upcoming parliament, the UCPN-M aims to scrap the constitution introduced by the Constituent Assembly and introduce its own constitution by introducing a people’s proletariat and presidential model single party political system without having opposition. This is the final goal of the Maoists aimed to be achieved through the ballot by making fool of all internal democratic forces and external forces who are actively involved in bringing the UCPN-M into mainstream politics.
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