Maoists trashes claims India trained its guerillas during insurgency
Kathmandu, Dec 29
The opposition UCPN (Maoist) party has trashed media reports claiming
India trained Nepali Maoist combatants during the armed conflict, terming
them "baseless and false".
During a programme organized at the Maoist party headquarters in Peris
Danda in the capital on Thursday, Maoist party secretary C.P Gajurel
refuted the media report, saying that in fact the Maoist party had started
"tunnel warfare" against "expansionist India" during that time.
"It is out and out baseless and false," he said.
The denial from the senior Maoist leader comes a day after India too
dismissed as unfounded media reports about Nepali Maoists being trained in
India.
"We have seen some media reports regarding the training of Nepalese
Maoists in India. The reports are baseless and unfounded,' said Indian
external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash on Wednesday.
The reports were based on a yet to be published book 'Maile dekheko
darbar' (The Palace as I saw it) authored by a former senior military
officer at the erstwhile royal palace Gen Bibek Shah. In the book, Shah
has contended India actively trained Nepal's Maoist guerrillas. He claimed
that the nexus came to light when an armed police force team went to
Chakrata in India's Uttarakhand state to receive arms training from the
Indian authorities and learned that an earlier group, apparently Maoists,
had also been trained there.
The opposition UCPN (Maoist) party has trashed media reports claiming
India trained Nepali Maoist combatants during the armed conflict, terming
them "baseless and false".
During a programme organized at the Maoist party headquarters in Peris
Danda in the capital on Thursday, Maoist party secretary C.P Gajurel
refuted the media report, saying that in fact the Maoist party had started
"tunnel warfare" against "expansionist India" during that time.
"It is out and out baseless and false," he said.
The denial from the senior Maoist leader comes a day after India too
dismissed as unfounded media reports about Nepali Maoists being trained in
India.
"We have seen some media reports regarding the training of Nepalese
Maoists in India. The reports are baseless and unfounded,' said Indian
external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash on Wednesday.
The reports were based on a yet to be published book 'Maile dekheko
darbar' (The Palace as I saw it) authored by a former senior military
officer at the erstwhile royal palace Gen Bibek Shah. In the book, Shah
has contended India actively trained Nepal's Maoist guerrillas. He claimed
that the nexus came to light when an armed police force team went to
Chakrata in India's Uttarakhand state to receive arms training from the
Indian authorities and learned that an earlier group, apparently Maoists,
had also been trained there.
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