Chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre) Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is scheduled to leave for India on Friday.
Surya Kiran Sharma, press coordinator of chairman Prachanda, said that Prachanda is flying to India at the invitation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to attend an international summit on International Relation, Friendship and Cooperation. There is no any plan of political meetings during the visit, Sharma said. He will return to Nepal on July 17. However, Prachanda’s personal aide Ramesh Malla in his late night Facebook post said Prachanda was visiting India at the invitation of BJP chair Jagat Prakash Nadda. Malla wrote that Prachanda was handed over the invitation of formal visit to India by the then ambassador of India to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra some one and a half months back asking the former to visit India at appropriate time.
“Chairman Prachanda was invited for formal visit to India by BJP chair Nadda as Prachanda had informed that he could visit India in July,” Malla wrote.
Earlier, Prachanda stressed the need for unity among the honest communists. Speaking at a policy debate on Science and Information Technology held in Kathmandu, Prachanda said that he would take initiative for the unity of such communists.
Communists are the ones who hold scientific views. Therefore, leaders of such mind-set must be united at one place, he said. “There is no alternative to moving forward according to the rules of science,” he said.
Stating that some leaders have been saying that federalism should be abolished, Prachanda said that the move was a step towards an autocratic monarchy. He stressed the need for making federalism more systematic and stronger instead of trying to abolish it.
Source : TRN,
