DIPAYAL: Coordinator of the Maoist’s United National People’s Movement Dr Baburam Bhattarai on Saturday

said a final battle between the revolutionaries and

the pro-status-quo forces had begun.

Adressing a regional assembly in Dipayal, he said, “We are so far flexible, in anticipation of a Maoist-led consensus government. But the remote-controlled coalition has been ignoring it.” He asked cadres to brace for a final fierce

battle. Dr Bhattarai termed the government barring

of a resolution motion against the President in the House as “the fear of the coalition leaders of being defeated”. “Sensing an attempt to impose an army rule, we’ve come to the people,” he said.

In another programme in Dadeldhura the same day, Dr Bhattarai alleged parliamentary parties of trying to dissolve the Constituent Assembly, as per the foreigners’ wish.

Talking to mediapersons here, Dr Bhattarai said, “UCPN-M is preparing

to protest the ill-conceived plan by launching a

mass movement.” He said the Nepali Congress

and the CPN-UML were against the CA.

“We made several attempts to correct the unconstitutional step of the President by discussing it in the parliament but the government did not let it happen,” he said. “The government is trying to invite a war in the nation by dissolving the CA.”

The only way to counter the undesired activities of the government is to revolt, he said. The government needs no assault to topple since it has no legs, Dr Bhattarai added. The people would make its fall inevitable, he opined.

“The government wants to get rid of the CA since it does not want any agreement,” he said, expressing concern that the parties had few alternatives at this critical juncture. The political vacuum thus created would be filled by the President’s rule, he alleged.

He said the parliamentary parties were not

ready to probe the war crimes committed during the insurgency so were against the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as envisaged by the Comprehensive Peace Accord.

He said impunity was rife since the war crimes were not probed. “This has put the democracy in peril,” he added.