The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) has asked India’s GMR-ITD Consortium to immediately stop work at the 300-MW Upper Karnali hydro project. Party’s Politburo member Khadka Bahadur Bishwakarma said it was his party’s policy not to let the project continue. He warned that any defiance by the consortium may invite serious consequences. “Anything can happen,”