For the Maoists, things like alliances and changes in ministers were normal. We are incompatible with the views held by the Congress on political matters.' - Maoist General Secretary Dev Gurung
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After meeting UML President KP Oli on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal told Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba in Baluwatar, 'I am under pressure to go into alliance with UML.'
Deuba, who came out of Baluwatar with the mindset that the alliance would collapse, told his relatives about Dahal after reaching his residence. Deuba also used all weapons to see if the alliance could be saved at the last moment. According to a source close to Deuba, he To deceive Dahal, he sent the first message of leaving the Speaker of the National Assembly . After there was no positive response from that, he also conveyed another message to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Finance. However, Dahal, who had changed his mind, did not increase his enthusiasm for cooperation with the Congress.
According to a Congress leader, domestic power has more influence on the formation and collapse of any coalition. The activities from the neighboring countries will make . 'We understand that this is exactly what happened now,' the leader said, 'we also did the work of helping Prachanda to change the environment, we think that the influence of neighboring powers worked more than this.'
He became the Prime Minister with the help of UML. At that time, the Congress leaders who explained that Deuba did not give up the claim of the Prime Minister under the guise of the southern neighbor said that this time the northern neighbor has added the communist parties to the power equation with the aim of uniting them .
In the space of 14 months, the task of bringing Prime Minister Dahal to UML's share is understood to a large extent by the role of Congress among some leaders. Prachanda took his departure from there because he felt uncomfortable running the government with UML. We did not understand that," said a minister in the government. "From the beginning, Prachanda's complaint has been with the Finance Minister. Theoretically, the Minister of Finance seemed to stick to the policy of reducing expenses and liabilities, while the Prime Minister, on the contrary, tried to make the Ministry of Finance operational, which was lax. The Minister of Finance did not agree on that. All the ministers except the Congress took the complaint with the finance ministry to the prime minister. Then the Prime Minister He repeatedly requested the Congress president to change the finance minister. When the party chairman did not agree to that, the main problem started from that point.'
Politically, the Koshi case was another reason . In Koshi, the Maoists gave up the Speaker's post to make Uddhav Thapa, the leader of the Congress parliamentary party, the Chief Minister. The existing equation in Koshi province did not support the Thapa-led government. After that, with the decision of the alliance, the Maoists promoted Indra Angbo, the leader of the Provincial Parliamentary Party, as the Chief Minister. However, with the help of leader Shekhar Koirala, a rebellion started in the party.
After 8 pro-Koirala MPs revolted, Shekhar's close leader Kedar Karki became the Chief Minister with the support of UML. The signs of mutiny that had appeared in Koshi were alarming to Dahal that it could be repeated in the Sangh at any moment. According to a Maoist leader, the Shekhar party from the Congress was always in favor of cooperation with the UML. With the arithmetic of the Congress parliamentary party on the bottom, the Maoists understood that the Congress and the UML could meet. Understanding this, Deuba has been stopping Dahal from doing any suspicious activities. He gave the message that 'only what I want' will happen within the party by live streaming two central working committee meetings .
Deuba was not unaware of the talks between the UML and the second-level leaders of the Maoists from the left equation to the party unity . Leaders close to Deuba were in favor of increasing the relationship with UML as the alliance may come under pressure, but Deuba did not agree. Deuba understood that Dahal would be suspicious when talking to UML .
UML has sent proposals to Deuba many times to make him the prime minister. But if he joins with the UML, he is quick to do so," said one of the leaders of the UML, "especially without the sign of Indian power, Deuba did not try to take a step forward in politics. Otherwise, he would have become the prime minister 6 months ago.'
UML president KP Oli was trying to make the same equation with the Maoists for some time after all his efforts with the Congress failed. By the time the Congress General Committee meeting was reached, a suitable environment was created for Dahal to return to the UML. After the organizational report of General Minister Gagan Thapa with the proposal not to ally with any party in the elections to be held after 4 years was submitted to the Congress General Committee, the leaders of the Congress establishment felt that it was easy for the Maoists to take a decision.
In that, the comments made by Congress Vice Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka about the context of people's war in the policy proposal presented to the General Committee by the main facilitator of the Congress-Maoist alliance were also made a matter of dissatisfaction by the Maoists. Khadka's conclusion was that the economic policies and programs advanced by the Congress after 052 years due to the Maoist people's war have been blocked. However, since Deuba is two-thirds of his members in the Congress Central Working Committee, he had already promised to revise all the issues raised in the General Committee.
'Grand Minister Gagan Thapa might have had a different opinion, but the issue of not making an electoral alliance was not included in the central committee, Prachanda was not aware of that,' another Congress leader said, 'He felt that Prachanda had more pressure from his northern neighbors than domestically to join the alliance with UML.
Maoist General Secretary Dev Gurung says that it is more difficult to continue cooperation with the Congress ideologically than the matter of ministerial reshuffling and cabinet reorganization. This alliance has started with the issue of protecting national independence, democracy and the constitution. The Congress took an ideological approach to attack the foundation on which the alliance was founded. Discussed . It also demanded that the alliance should be discussed with the political agenda,' Gurung said, 'For the Maoists, alliances and ministerial changes were normal.' Ours is incompatible with the views held by the Congress on political matters.'
At the Congress General Committee meeting, a signature campaign was conducted under the leadership of Central Member and former Minister Shankar Bhandari saying that a Hindu state should be established instead of secularism. 800 general committee members including about 40 central members have signed and submitted to the leadership Gurung also objected to that incident. "When running a coalition, some things get along, some things don't." It should be taken naturally. However, when the political ideas and agenda were discussed in the Congress General Committee, we became serious about it," Gurung added, "creating a religious state is against the constitution and the achievements of change. It is a serious incident that central members should sign and discuss in the general committee that they should go in favor of Hindu state.'
Congress co-general minister Jeevan Pariyar says that it is just an excuse to leave the alliance based on the party's political views and agenda. "Whatever arguments the Maoists have put forward while leaving the alliance, they are pretexts." The plan to break the alliance has been made for some time. Its main secret is different," he said, "those secrets will be revealed gradually.
