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Sujata Koirala, daughter of Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, on Sunday accused Maoists in her country of having designs to capture the Constituent Assembly polls scheduled in November.
New Delhi, July 22 : Sujata Koirala, daughter of Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, on Sunday accused Maoists in her country of having designs to 'capture' the Constituent Assembly polls scheduled in November.
"Their (Maoists) intentions are bad. They want to spoil the environment in Nepal. They want to capture the polling," said Sujata Koirala, who is in New Delhi as Nepal Prime Minister's emissary to hold talks with Indian leaders.
The Maoists have demanded that their youth-wing Young Communist League (YCL) cadres be posted alongside the police during the elections, said Sujata Koirala, adding, "This is objectionable".
The Maoists, who are now a registered political party, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists), joined the interim cabinet in April under a peace deal ending their decade-long civil war.
The Maoists have confined 31,000 fighters to camps and locked nearly 3,500 weapons in containers under the UN supervision as part of the peace deal.
Sujata Koirala said ebb in the Maoists' subversive activities was nominal, and that they continued to run parallel power structures in rural areas.
"Things have changed a lot. Violence and murders have ebbed. But the kind of activities Maoists are indulging in, they are not reliable. Their youth-wing cadres still carry arms, and continue to extort land and property in the rural areas. They haven't honoured the agreement between us, they haven't yet returned the land they have captured," she said.
International observes and the United States say the Maoists, who still feature on the US list of "terrorist" organisations, have not handed over all their weapons and are violating the peace pact.
The Maoists and the Nepal Government have agreed to hold elections in November for a Constituent Assembly, which will draft a new Constitution and take a decision on the fate of the monarchy in Nepal.
ANI
