24th of August at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Demonstrators surrounded the Maoist central office known as Parisdanda, which is a little south of Tinkunye in Kathmandu. At that time many government, private and commercial structures in Kathmandu were on fire. Many were burned to ashes.

Central Office Chief Secretary Ganeshman Pun and other employees were in the building when the protestors surrounded them from all sides. Although the local government imposed a curfew, he was still in the office.

The central office, which is guarded 24 hours by the armed police, was also protected by the police that day. At the beginning of that day, the police tried to disperse the protestors, but as the crowd grew, it proved impossible . The police retreated for their safety . The police asked Punan to leave for safety. After the protestors entered the building and started vandalism and arson, there was panic around Pesirdanda.

Just before the arson started, the Chief Secretary was again at Parisdanda . After the vandalism and arson started, he went out with his colleagues . There were reports of arson everywhere. The police and friends came to see the protestors coming towards our party office,' he recalled the incident on the afternoon of August 24, 'protesters came from all over Koteshwar, Chaisal, Tinkunne.' The building was set on fire. The furniture was taken out and thrown out. Furniture and other materials were burnt in the compound of the building.

Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and other office bearers were ransacked and set on fire but some documents of the party were saved, he said. The last minute of the party has been saved. "Some documents related to the Election Commission have been left," Pun said, "old files, furniture, computers and other items in the store were destroyed." The fire did not enter the upper floor. All the stuff there has been vandalized and thrown out," he said. Although the Maoist office building suffered other damage, Pustakalaya was saved. Although the protestors vandalized the library, they did not set the books on fire. The library was vandalized. The books have been damaged. As there was no fire, the books were saved from burning," he said.

The protestors vandalized the staff room in the underground of the office. The staff living there were displaced. Even after the arson, the protestors remained until the evening of that day. "One group would go, another group would come," Pun said, "arson was going on till night."

Maoists have said that physical and other damage caused by arson is more than two and a half million. "There is a preliminary assessment of physical and material damage equal to two crore rupees," Chief Secretary Pun said .

In the same building, the office of workers, women, YCL etc. is also there, so the damage has been more, he says. He told that the office was cleaned two days after the fire. Two days after the fire, we started cleaning. We have put the office into operation since October 3,' he said, ``Workers and locals have helped us to repair and clean the office.'' Work has been done to bring back items such as chairs and tables that were stolen from the office. "Some furniture has come back," he informed, "this must be love for the party." Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal visited the central office on August 31. He said at that time that he would make a bigger party office with everyone's help.