A Maoist Prime Minister in Nepal

Pushpa kamal Dahar has been elected the PM of the newly formed Nepal Government. He was voted by 464 candidates while his opponent Sher Bahadur Dueba from Nepali Congress got 113 votes. Nepal blog reports:

"In what will go on the pages of the history books as one of the most important days of Nepal, Maoist revolutionary (and leader of an outfit that was branded terrorist until two years ago) Pushpa Kamal Dahal (aka Prachanda) has been elected the Prime Minister of Nepal by a majority of votes in the Constituent Assembly..."

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America started to contact the Nepal's Maoist government though they called them terrorist few years back. Nepal blog Reports.

News says that Bangladesh has the drafts ready for a truth commission. Another process by which the current government try to make their stay steady.

It was probably yesterday that i heard that the Rohinga refugees of Myanmar were given voting rights. Another news says, "Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh say won't return".

Problems in Nepal

If elections are the way to measure popularity then Maoists are the largest in Nepal. But the recent conditions in Nepal are serious and the party has a lots of challenges to follow:

"CPN-Maoist activists of Rautahat district today burnt down the effigy of party Chairman Prachanda and demanded for his resignation in protests of the inclusion of no nominees from the district by the party leadership in the closed list for proportional representation system. This is the first incident of open protests against Maoist Chairman Prachanda by activist from his own party. The activists have also alleged that non-Madhesis have been nominated in the Madhesi quotas in the party’s closed list. They claimed that the PR list submitted by the party has emphasized on the hilly region and demanded the party’s central committee to amend the list. The activists have also burnt down the effigy of lawmaker Prabhu Sah. The Maoist became the largest political party in the recent CA elections"


"the power! It changes people, makes people and breaks people. Most people that is, and Maoists are included. It appears that there is a serious power struggle going on within the Maoist party. Baburam Bhattarai versus supporters of Prachanda, the chairman. Today’s op-ed article in Kantipur daily by Bishwodeep Pandey, personal secretary of Baburam Bhattarai, brings the feud to the public. The article, in Nepali, titled “Baburam a New Pushpalal?” refers to the latest verbal attacks against Baburam by some “opportunist elements inside and outside the party.”Click here to read the article in Nepali. Click here to read as it appeared in the newspaper’s page."

Link to United we blog, nepal

Maoists Celebrate Victory in Nepal

It had been a historical election in Nepal help this month accoladed by the international delegates. Blog Nepal reports:

...The Maoist’s success has demonstrated the brilliant combination of bullet and ballot to rise to the power. Chairman Prachanda will be cited as an example of success in world communist movement. His challenge: turn the flowery promises into reality....