There are countless incidents of internal conflicts between parties increasing after the loss of power and authority. During the three and a half decades of parliamentary practice, many examples of this trend have been found in almost all political parties. Power has been creating internal conflicts not only in democratic parties, but also in communist parties. Nowadays, it is said that power mania is one of the main reasons for the weakening of communist parties.

Sometimes, instead of exercising power and authority, the incidents of internal conflicts within parties can be considered strange even when they are conducting armed rebellion for political change at the risk of their lives. The power struggle that erupted within the Maoists can be considered a vivid example even when they were ready to sacrifice their lives and carry guns. It was not difficult to guess to what extent the internal conflicts of the Communist Party were caused by the struggle at that time. The extent of the blame that the accused had to bear in that case is also found interesting.

The story is from 2054 Mangsir. In the 22 months since the Maoist armed rebellion began, information about the action taken against Ram Bahadur Thapa, the field commander and policy maker of the Maoist People's War, was gradually becoming public. At that time, it was difficult to know the real information within the Maoists. Some information was created by the Maoists and security personnel themselves and given to the media. Which was also called 'black propaganda' at that time. There was some relaxation in the activities of the armed rebellion that began in 2052 Falgun by 2054.

According to the news published quoting high-ranking Maoist sources, by the second week of 2054 Mangsir, internal strife was increasing among the top leaders of the party. At that time, it was assumed that the reason for the relaxation in the rebellion activities that the party had been conducting for a few months was a power struggle among the leaders. At that time, Mohan Vaidya and Pushpa Kamal Dahal were in control of the party.

Due to the dominance of the leader duo, it was sometimes said that they did not accept the existence of other leaders who did not agree with them. Some leaders said that Dahal and Vaidya were more interested in promoting the Maoist party than in establishing a democratic government. Ram Bahadur Thapa was known as a leader who would go to the field and take action against cadres. Sources said that Dahal and Vaidya were afraid of Thapa after he became popular among the cadres due to his aggressive ability towards reactionaries. They took action against Thapa with very sensitive and serious allegations.

According to Dahal sources, Thapa was accused of having an immoral sexual relationship with a woman within the party, conducting activities that were more focused on himself than the party, causing various incidents to come into the limelight, and showing egotistical, individualistic and anarchist tendencies. Sources had informed that action was taken on the same charge. In an interview given by Dahal in the magazine 'Abhiyaan', it was indirectly admitted that action was taken on the same charge. It was also confirmed that action was taken against Thapa on the same basis.

Thapa was opposing the leadership for taking action against him on the basis of sexual and other scandals. But he used to tell the cadres that he was being taken action for ideological reasons. According to sources, Thapa had told the leaders that he was opposing the policy of people's war by staying away from the war zone. The source had said that he had demanded that he go to the field and make the policy. The issue of action against Thapa came to light some time after action was taken against Dr. Baburam Bhattarai and Bhakta Bahadur Shrestha on the charge of trying to withdraw from the people's war. This confirmed that factional politics dominated even during the war. It was said that the internal strife within the CPN-Maoist, which was formed after the split of the Unity Center two years ago, would affect the armed rebellion. Even before the Ekta Kendra split, the issue of sexual scandals involving some of its central members had come into the spotlight. Sources had said that sexual incidents among the Maoists (especially those deployed in the jungle) had occasionally caused problems within the party circle. Some cadres were disappointed, saying that the power struggle and sexual incidents seen at the leadership level could even affect the armed rebellion. Therefore, cadres had started criticizing the leadership. Kantipur Daily published a news report on the internal conflict seen within the Maoists during the armed movement and the context of the action taken against the leaders under the title ‘Maoist leaders’ power struggle affected the People’s War’ on Mangsir 17, 2054. The conflict between the leaders sent a message that they were under the protection of factions and power even during the war. Dr. Bhattarai and Thapa, who were taken into action at that time, have finally left the Maoists. Baidya, the leader of the group that took action, has also separated from the Maoists. Thapa is now the leader of the UML parliamentary party.