Leaders agree on single document

KATHMANDU, Nov 26 - The central committee (CC) of the CPN (Maoist) on Tuesday reached consensus on drafting a single political report incorporating ideas from both the 'hard-line' and 'establishment factions' - the first one is led by Mohan Baidya, the second by Chairman and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. ...

...report will be tabled at the national cadre meet on Wednesday.Chandra Prakash Gajurel, a CC member and a hard-liner, said a political draft incorporating ideas agreed by the party's state committee members will now need to be endorsed by the national cadre meet on Wednesday. "The agreed agendas include party unification and taking the 'party's major tactical line' to a higher level," said Gajurel.

Explaining that the party's tactical line is either going for 'people's republic or democratic republic', Gajurel said the right name for the party's tactical line will be discussed on Wednesday morning.

Gajurel added that the CC agreed to take unresolved issues to the national convention, the party's largest body which alone has voting right.

"The conclusion of the national cadre meet's group discussions was party unification," said Krishna Bahadur Mahara, a CC member and Minister for Information and Communications. "The central committee discussions went very positively today, further consolidating party unity.

In the past one week, the party has seen an ideological rift between Chairman Dahal and Baidya after they presented parallel political documents to its CC, which started on Nov. 17.

Both the documents were brought to discussions at the 13 state committees in its national cadre meet that started from Nov 21. Some 1,200 state committee members held discussions for the last four days to suggest ways for the party to move forward, even though this body does not have voting right.

Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, a CC member from the Dahal faction, said that major issues such as analysing the current ideologies by evaluating party history need to be discussed in a bigger forum.

"The central committee meet's conclusion was to bring the two factions together by ironing out differences," said Rayamajhi.

A total of 40 team members from 13 state committees presented their views on the two 'parallel' political reports to the larger plenum on Monday.

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