Violating the Comprehensive Peace Accord, Maoists have started opening offices under their United Revolutionary People’s Council (URPC), a body parallel to local state institutions, in Lekhnath municipality of Kaski.
According to The Kathmandu Post daily, Maoist cadres have reactivated opening such offices in different wards of the municipality.
According to local cadres, their party has directed to launch a nationwide campaign for opening such council offices.
They also said that the party’s central committee has directed them to open parallel offices at par with government offices at district, municipality and village levels.
Earlier, Maoists have announced that they scrapped all the parallel bodies after they joined the parliamentary politics.
The paper quoted Maoist area number 4 in-charge of the municipality Darshan as saying, “We will be opening ward, municipality and district level offices much the same as the government. We plan to open our offices adjoining government offices.”
He further said that the offices are meant to solve problems unsolved by the state. Similarly, in Bardia, Maoists have threatened to kill Mukti Bahadur Swar of Gola village of Bardiya district if he ventures to return home.
According to Swar, who has been living at the district headquarters for five years, the Maoist cadres had threatened to chop him into pieces if he attempted to return home.
The incident occurred at a time Maoist leaders are saying that they are allowing all internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return to their village without hindrance.
Meanwhile, many IDPs have appealed to local authorities to help create conducive environment for their safe return and for the return of their seized properties.
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