Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) Prachand Thursday refuted a recent report regarding the announcement of reviving its Joint Revolutionary People's Council (JRPC) which acted as parallel government during the decade long insurgency in the country.
The national news agency (RSS) Thursday reported that Prachand, while addressing a press conference in Surkhet district, situated some 375 km west of capital Kathmandu, stated that the media of disseminating wrong information on the issue.
"We have not revived the people's government but only reconstituted the existing council," he said.
Although the council was active as shadow government during the conflict, it was now activated as an organization to make the Constituent Assembly (CA) election a success, he said.
He also said that the people's council was never dissolved and it was only reconstituted now.
The CPN-M people's governments, which were operational in villages and district level as parallel forms of government during the conflict period, had been dissolved following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the seven political parties.
Meanwhile, senior leader of the CPN-M Dr. Baburam Bhattarai also defended the revival of peoples' revolutionary councils across the country.
"These units have been revived to help in the CA elections," Dr. Bhattarai said.
He also rejected accusations that the CPN-M had resurrected the parallel government in violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
Source: Xinhua
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