“We won’t return the seized properties”: Maoist leader Baidya

At a time when the UN is asking the Maoists to return the confiscated properties and create environment to return the displaced persons in home, a top Maoist leader Mohan Baidya alias Kiran has said on Tuesday that the Maoists would not return the properties seized by them during the insurgency period.

"We are not at the position of returning the properties that has already been distributed to the poor people," Baidya said it at a program held in Sindhuligadhi. He also said they (Maoists) would also not reduce the number of their combatants.

Addressing the program held to felicitate Baidya and another top Maoist leader CP Gajurel, the eastern command chief of the Maoists Ram Bahadur Thapa alias Badal urged one and all to be prepared for the decisive movement.

He also said the Maoists would launch another phase of movement from street, parliament and the government to establish republic in the country.

Another leader Gajurel, speaking on the occasion said the postponement of the constituent assembly (CA) elections was a grand design by national as well as international forces.