RPPN will stand firm against Maoist anarchy'

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The Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPPN) in a blunt statement against the Maoist and the seven political parties in the government after the RPPN president and other leaders were several attacked by the Maoists.RPPN President Rabindra Nath Sharma and other leaders were attacked and physically assaulted by the Maoists in Jhapa on March 15. Sharma and others were on their way to Panchthar for a party programme and had stayed in Hotel Haven in Birtamod Jhapa when they were attacked by the Maoists. The next day the party's vice president Padma Sundar Lawati and his team was also attacked by the Maoists in Phidim.After the attacks, Sharma, in a press statement, said the anarchist Maoist mob had attacked him, other party leaders and workers in an attempt to disrupt the party's activities in preparation for the constitution assembly elections.

In the statement, he said his party had accepted the elections of the constituent assembly when the eight parties had been parroting that they would conduct the constituent assembly election in a free and fair manner.In the statement, he said that loktantra was not the inherited rights of only the Maoists, parties in government and their vigilante groups. All people, groups and other political forces have equal right to use and utilize loktantra and to stop, disrupt and disturb others organizational activities itself totally undemocratic, autocratic and despotic attitude.

He said that while the Maoists and the seven parties are talking tall about peace and formation of 'new Nepal', the country heading towards more disturbances, anarchy, ethnic and communal clashes and disintegration. As the security situation has reached its nadir, the Terai has remained tense and the Maoists have been making a mockery of the peace agreement by kidnapping, extortion and violence, the presence of the state is void in all sectors of the country.He said that he and his party had no hesitation to say that the Maoists, which has remained a villain in the national scene and is all out to muster strength on the force of arms and weapons, was the most responsible for this sorry state of the country. He pointed out that the Maoists had resorted to violence and their rough and rustic ways before the ink of the peace agreement had dried up. All political parties, including the two main parties in the government, journalists, businesspeople and all common people had become victims of the Maoist atrocities. He said his party would stand firm against the anarchic extremism of the Maoists. He said that if one gazed sanely into the activities of the Maoists it becomes clear that the Maoists did not want to resolve the present political stalemate through the election of the constituent assembly. Besides, the government's weakness, incapability and helplessness had only incited and encouraged the Maoists to increase and further their atrocities.Sharma said in addition to the constituent assembly elections, the country has to decide on whether it wanted to keep the monarchy or go for a republic state. On that all people have the right to decide on those issue through referendum. "We also want a plebiscite on the issue of secular state imposed and despotically declared by the seven parties under pressure from the Maoists," he added.