Kathmandu, April 27
CPN-Maoist Centre leader Top Bahadur Rayamajhi says the proposed unification between his party and the CPN-UML should incorporate sentiments of the grassroots.
Rayamajhi’s statement follows a disruption created by some Maoist Centre cadres during a function the two parties jointly organised on April 22 to mark the establishment of Communist Party of Nepal. The cadres had objected to the banner the UML prepared for the event claiming it did not have a picture of Marx, Lenin and Mao.
“What we saw at the function that day suggests that a handful of leaders cannot conclude the unification process. We have now realised that the unification should be done only after understanding sentiments of the grassroots, institutionally,” Rayamajhi tells Onlinekhabar in an interview.
The leader clarifies that he is not raising doubts over intentions of the leaders, adding, such mistakes and weaknesses, however, should be corrected.
“We need to hold discussions up to the level of leading cadres,” he advises, “It does not mean that anyone is not accepting the need for unification. It just means that such discussions are beneficial for political, ideological and organisational unity.”
In another context, he maintains that such problems are natural as two parties are going to be one; therefore the unification process has not stopped now.
