KATHMANDU: Chairman of the CPN-Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has revealed that he told Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli that the Nepali Congress (NC) was more leftist than the UML Chairman.
In an interaction with media persons at Parliament Building in New Baneshwor Thursday, Prachanda said he told so to Oli a few days ago when PM Oli phoned him to rue that Prachanda was hell-bent on toppling the leftist government with the help of the NC.
“A few days ago, Oli called me and asked, ‘You are supporting Sher Bahadur Deuba and the NC to finish us off? Have you decided to form a government with the NC by toppling us?’”, Prachanda quoted Oli as saying. To that, Prachanda replied to Oli, “I have come to find that the NC is emerging as more leftist, democratic and revolutionary than you. What are you going to do about it?”
Prachanda added, “I told him that the NC says the constitution should be defended whereas you (Oli) took the opposite path. The NC is for protecting democracy and minimizing foreign interference, and you have started to broker foreigners’ infiltration. How can you say the NC is rightist and you a leftist?” After that, the PM told Prachanda not to lecture him much, the Maoist Chairman said.
Prachanda also spoke about the five-party alliance at the event, and insisted it was not an opportunistic alliance. He clarified that democrats and leftists had come together due to KP Oli’s tryanny.
“Now that the people also have known that Oli is a villain, one must dispel doubts that the opposition alliance is only after power,” said Prachanda.
Comment