Kathmandu, March 10:

Ganeshman Pun, president of the Young Communist League (YCL), a youth-wing of the CPN-Maoist, said today that the league would conduct creative works in society and cooperate

with the local administration in controlling social crime and maintaining law and order situation.

Addressing a press conference at the Buddhanagar-based central office of the CPN-Maoist, Pun, who was a commander in the Maoist’s People’s Liberation Army during the conflict, said that they did not intend to take law and order in their hands; rather they wanted to work in coordination with the police and local community in maintaining law and order in community.

He said that YCL would launch nationwide awareness campaigns for the establishment of federal, democratic republic in the country and disseminate the philosophy of Marxist-Leninist and Mao tse Tung Thought and Prachanda Path. He also clarified that the YCL was not another form of Maoist army.

The YCL, which managed the recently-held Maoist public meetings addressed by Maoist chairman Prachanda and Dr Baburam Bhattarai, would conduct social services such as road construction, sanitation campaign, plantation of trees and organise sports for youth in major cities to mark the 12th anniversary of launching of the People’s War. Pun said that his cadres were attacked by the cadres of Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum in the Tarai while organising the mass meetings.

He said that the Maoist leadership decided to form YCL with a view to engage youth in creative activities in the changed political context. Most of the members of the YCL come from the PLA and from other political fronts built during the People’s War. Its first national meeting was held in the capital on February 2-3.