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Posted by: granite July 20, 2011

Maoist in Nepal

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http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/07/20/oped/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/337684.html

I liked the part :They are struggling not to split, but finding it more and more difficult to remain one party

The UCPN (Maoist) is producing interesting political discourses and calls for so-called transparency and purification. If we study the Maoist lingo, we find that the three leaders Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Mohan Vaidya and Baburam Bhattarai use very familiar political party metaphors used by all the other parties of Nepal. They are using the same language of rejection and rebellion as repeated by the political leaders of other parties like the Nepali Congress, the United Marxist Leninist and the Madhesi parties. The same kind of meetings, lobbying for ministerial posts for one’s supporters and very importantly projecting the image of leaders for the post of prime minister, collecting signatures in the form of support and rebellion and making bargains for positions of power are common shared practices among Nepal’s political parties.

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