Kathmandu, January 21:

CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda today said his party was ready to make electoral adjustment with Nepali Congress, UML, other fringe Left parties or the nationalist forces.

Lokendra Bista, a Maoist central leader and lawmaker quoted Prachanda as saying, while addressing the ongoing three-day training to delegates of the Maoists’ 11 state councils, that Maoists and the CPN-Unity Centre (Masal), led by Narayan Kazi Shrestha aka Prakash, would unify to face the election to constituent assembly.

Bista quoted the party chairman as saying that the Maoists would emerge as the strongest party through the April 10 election. “If we are able to face challenges from the reactionaries and foreign forces we will emerge as the strongest party,” Bista quoted Prachanda as telling over 700 delegates of the state councils. Team leaders of all the state delegates had also presented political reports of the respective states. The reports, according to Bista, were highly optimistic about the party’s victory in the election. Most of the delegates are learnt to have told the party leadership to be serious about the challenges posed by some elements in the Tarai.

Such challenges could be easily tackled provided that the seven-party alliance and the government moved together with a view to holding the election, the delegates said while suggesting the party and the government to take India into confidence to successfully hold the polls.