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Nepal Maoists’ stir likely to hit flights The United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) will start their fortnight-long agitation on November 1 that among other things will also be stalling domestic and international flight operations. Party ideologue and senior leader Baburam Bhattarai said the movement would be totally peaceful, but very effective. “We will bring at least 2,00,000 people in the Capital and picket the Secretariat as well as the Airport.” At an informal interaction with the journalists associated with the foreign media on Friday, Bhattarai also urged them to convey the message to the international community and passengers not to travel to Kathmandu on November 10 — the day his party has scheduled to picket the international airport. “This is symbolic protest being done to restore civilian supremacy as President Dr Ram Baran Yadav, by reinstating the sacked Army chief, had violated the principle,” he added.
Nepalese, Indian Maoists ‘in touch’ Despite repeated denial of Nepali Maoist leaders that they have no working relations with Indian Maoists Nepalese media have revealed that some leaders of the two parties have met recently and tried to improve their relations. According to a report carried out by Rajdhani Daily, a Nepali national newspaper, senior leaders of the two parties met in some undisclosed place in India while Nepali Maoist leaders were on four-day visit to India beginning October 8. During the meeting Indra Mohan Sidgel ‘Basanta’ from the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) and KishenJee from the Communist Party of India-Maoists, among others were present in the meeting. This is the first-ever meeting after the two sides had met under the aegis of Committee of Maoist Parties of South Asia (COMPOSA), a regional outfit of the Maoist parties of the region in which both the Indian and Nepali Maoist parties are major members. The meeting was a follow-up to the resolution of the central committee meeting of the UCPN-M's held three months ago. The central committee had decided to resume meetings with COMPOSA and its global umbrella, Revolutionary International Movement.
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