Prachanda’s China visit for strenghening bilateral relation of two communist parties: Maoist

Unified CPN (Maoist) international department incharge Krishna Bahadur Mahara has said the impending China visit of Maoist leaders including chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is not aimed at toppling down the government, but towards strenghening the bilateral relations between the two communist parties.

One day before Maoist supremo Prachanda and his team is leaving for China, Mahara said the Maoist leaders would meet the leaders of Chinese Communist Party and discuss ways to improve the interparty cooperation.

Maoist chairman Prachanda had met with Chinese leaders during his recent visit in Hong Kong too.

Prachanda is visiting China at a time, when the party leadership is saying the deteriorated relation of the party with the Indian establishment was improving.

Maoists’ relation with India had soured after the Maoist government tried to sack the erstwhile army chief Rookmangud Katawal.

In his resignation speech, following the President’s move to overturn his cabinet’s decision to sack Katawal, Prachanda had said he would rather resign than submit to the pressure from the ‘foreign lords.’

Many believe the Maoists were funded and the leaders provided with logistic support by the Indian establishment from backdoor during the insurgency.