June 22, 2006 Prachanda warns conspirators, Pact with Maoists a mistake: SPA Filed under: News Chairman of CPN (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda said today that a conspiracy was being hatched to break the latest eight-point agreement reached between the government and the Maoists. Addressing a meeting at Barchhen VDC on the conclusion of party’s regional training programme, he said a foreign power, which had colluded with the king, is working to break the eight-point understanding. “The royalists and a foreign power want the eight-point agreement scrapped,” he said. “We’d like to remind such conspirators that a decade ago there was a February revolution and now there would be an October revolution.” He also claimed that some leaders had tried to block the pro-democracy movement from moving ahead. He said his party was against violence and was ready to be flexible to the maximum extent. “But no step would be acceptable that is against the freedom of Nepali people,” he added. Dr Baburam Bhattarai and other central leaders are accompanying Prachanda, who arrived in BP Nagar on June 16. Leaders of the seven-party alliance today reviewed the eight-point agreement reached between the alliance and the Maoists on June 16 and concluded that enough homework was not done and no consultations were made with alliance partners before reaching the historical pact. The meeting held at the CPN-UML’s headquarters at Balkhu also concluded that the alliance and the Maoists made a mistake by excluding woman representatives in the committee drafting interim statute. One of the participants, requesting anonymity, told this daily that UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and Janamorcha Nepal president and Deputy Prime Minister Amik Sherchan said they were also not consulted by PM Girija Prasad Koirala prior to reaching the agreement. Vice-president of the Nepali Congress Sushil Koirala, who was also present in the meeting, is learnt to have conceded that there was some procedural mistakes while reaching the agreement. “Six leaders of the seven-party alliance, except Shusil Koirala, expressed their From - http://focus.blogsome.com/2006/06/22/prachanda-warns-conspirators/#more-102