It's always there... even Kantipuronline doesn't forget about that issue of bahunism.. So read this news, where they specifically highlighting Shrestha as Newar!!! Racism is always there in NEpal.... And true enough... Maoists rebellion is led by two mainbahuns, Prachanda and Baburam, and they always try to twist the things for their own advantage... and hence dictatorship has been isplayed by Prachanda in NO TIME and expelled those two Shrestha and Thapa!!! - http://kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=68209 Prachanda expels two central leaders from CPN-Maoist Kantipur Report KATHMANDU, March 14 - Chairman of the CPN-Maoist, Prachanda alias Puspa Kamal Dahal, on Tuesday expelled two central members of the party Ravindra Shrestha and Mani Thapa (Anukul). Issuing a statement today, Maoist supremo Prachanda termed the two leaders “deserters of the revolution and servants of the autocratic monarchy and counter-revolution.” Prachanda’s move comes a day after the two Maoist leaders accused Prachanda and another top Maoist leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai of adopting nepotisms at the party’s top decision-making levels. Alleging that the two top Maoist leaders (Prachanda and Bhattarai) are ideologically deviated, Shrestha and Thapa on Monday appealed for open discussion on the issue. “The party completely dismisses the so-called appeal made by Rabindra and Anukul in abusive and mean words against the (party) leadership ,” Prachanda said in the statement, adding, “There can be no serious discussion with them (Shrestha and Thapa) on the ‘theoretical’ questions raised by them in an extremely mechanical, offensive and distorted manner .” Describing Shrestha’s image in the party as very self-centered, moody, controversial and extremist, the Maoist supremo has revealed that both Shrestha and Thapa were suspended from the party a few days ago “because of their anarchic and apolitical activities.” In a six-point political agenda made public under the “new cultural revolution group” Shrestha and Thapa jointly demanded that both Prachand and Bhattrai self-criticize publicly “for showing non-proletarian tendencies” in their recent interview given to Kantipur daily. Hinting at the “ideological differences” between Prachanda and Bhattarai that surfaced last year, the two leaders also said that although the intra-party conflict was confined within the party so far, they have appealed to all sister organizations of the party, including the People’s Liberation Army, to discuss the issues openly. Hailing from the Newar community in the Kathmandu Valley, Shrestha was a member the Maoist delegation which held talks with the government when Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel was the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister some six years ago. Shrestha who was arrested from the capital was released from detention after two years during government-Maoist peace talks. In their appeal Shrestha and Thapa claimed that Prachanda’s statement in the Kantipur interview that he was ready to accept active monarchy (if so decided by the constituent assembly elections) was “against the proletarian political ideology and flexibility.” “It’s Prachanda’s rightist tendency and extreme deviation from the proletarian ideology when he says that he believes in active monarch and wants to see a republican set up in the country at the same time,” Shrestha and Thapa said in their joint statement, adding, “We ask him (Prachanda) to withdraw his words and undertake self-criticism.” They also alleged that both Prachanda and Bhattarai have never sent their sons, daughters and kin to the frontline of the ongoing war against the state and have rather sent them abroad to receive a “bourgeois” education. Posted on: 2006-03-14 05:54:21 (Server Time)