Kathmandu, April 2
CPN-UML politburo member Beduram Bhusal, who prepared a draft of the interim statute for the unified communist party that the UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre wish to form after their merger, says the Maoist demand about the unification on the basis of equal numbers is just a plan to kill the ongoing process.
Bhusal and Maoist Centre’s Barsha Man Pun drafted the statute as assigned by a joint task force. However, the task force could not make an agreement about some crucial issues, hence the draft has been sent to top leaders at the Party Unification Coordination Committee.
On the other hand, some Maoist leaders have demanded that positions in the unified party be shared on a 50:50 ratio.
“No, unification is impossible on the basis of equal numbers,” Bhusal tells Onlinekhabar in an interview, “It’s not my opinion. It’s the official view of UML.”
In another context, the ideologue says his party cannot accept including ‘people’s war’ in the statute as demanded by the Maoist Centre as it is the most controversial phrase in Nepali politics and society.
