Senior leader of the ruling CPN Madhav Kumar Nepal has said the party does not accept the People's War Day even as the party is celebrating it across the country on Wednesday.
Nepal has commented so on the day CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal paid homage to the martyrs of Janaandolan and People's War at the party's central office in Dhumbarahi. "The decision to celebrate it is Dahal's personal decision. There has been no discussion in the party about that. The party has also not taken a decision on the matter. We will therefore not celebrate it," Nepal said at a program in Janakpur.
Another CPN Chairman and Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli also did not attend the program at Dhumbarahi.
Former PM Nepal repeated that the party does not accept the People's War Day celebrated as per the unilateral decision of any single leader.
There was confusion about whether to celebrate the start of the armed insurgency by the Maoists on the first day of the 11th month of the Nepali calendar 23 years ago after party unification. While the leaders from the then Maoists were in favor of celebrating it, those from the then CPN-UML were reluctant.
The chairman duo Oli and Dahal, and general secretary Bishnu Paudel finally agreed to celebrate the occasion but by mentioning Janaandolan before the People's War. Central member of CPN Bishnu Rijal tweeted that the party will organize a memorial for the martyrs of Janaandolan and People's War at the central office in Dhumbarahi on Wednesday.
