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Ultra Left Election Boycott: Confrontations Escalate - People Will Tear New Constitution Into Pieces

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--By TC Correspondent
 
CPN-Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya has warned that the new constitution to be drafted without the participation of his party will not be acceptable to the people.
 
“It is totally a wrong step to strive for drafting the new constitution by sideling a major force of the people’s war,” said the CPN-Maoist leader speaking at a programme in the Capital on October 26. “In fact, the upcoming election is not going to help draft a truly people’s constitution, the people will tear it into pieces,” he added.
 
He assertively ruled out the possibility of drafting the new constitution by the second Constituent Assembly (CA) polls. Baidya made such remarks at a time when the major political parties have been intensifying their campaigns for the upcoming CA elections.
 
The CPN-Maoist leader said the CA was being used repeatedly to deceive the people. “In 1950 also, the concept of Constituent Assembly was introduced but the constitution was not drafted,” said Baidya. “It (CA) turned out to be just a slogan to deceive the people.”
 
He went on to say that the pro-parliamentary parties, who never get tired of giving speeches about the principle of power separations, have shown faint-hearted tendency. “Now the parliamentary system has been proved to be defeated,” he said.
 
Chairman Baidya remarked that federalism based on ethnic identity would not be acceptable to a communist party. “This is senseless, and a communist party should raise the issue of class,” he further said.
 
He said that the anti-election campaign launched by his party has been a grand success. The anti-election activities are at a peak and clashes have been reported between the dissident Maoists and the cadres of other political parties.
 
He further said that his party would continue the ongoing election-boycott campaign. “Neither we will go underground nor will wage an armed struggle”, the former rebel leader stated, charging that some forces are disseminating false information about his party.
 
Baidhya accused the parliamentary forces of inviting confrontation in the country notwithstanding their failure. “This has made the people aggressive,” he added, saying the country could not be liberated from the current state of affairs till such (parliamentarian) forces existed.

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