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, by Kantipur
Kantipur Report
Final results of Nepal CA election Parties Seats 1. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) 220 2. Nepali Congress 110 3. Communist Party of Nepal (UML) 103 4. Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum 52 5. Terai Madhesh Democratic Party 20 6. Sadbhavana Party 9 7. Rastriya (…)
, by PRACHANDA, VARADARAJAN Siddharth
Complete transcript of interview of Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) by Siddharth Varadarajan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu, [Kathmandu, April 24, 2008]
------------------------- Varadarajan: What was your reaction to the election result? Were you (…)
, by CHENOY Kamal Mitra
The results of the Constituent Assembly elections in Nepal have come as a shock to Indian policy makers, the media including prominent Nepali commentators, and the policy elite in the US, European Union and others. The run up to these elections, and even a short visit to Nepal would have (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
Nepalese left stuns the world yet again. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M), US designated terrorist outfit, won a landslide victory in April 9 general elections. In a complex electoral process for 601 seats, Maoists have bagged 112 out of 240 first-past-the-post seats at the time of (…)
, by BHATTARAI Baburam
Maoist ideologue Dr Baburam Bhattarai has emerged as the real leader of this country after the Constituent Assembly (CA) polls. He defeated his Nepali Congress opponent Chandraprakash Neupane with a huge margin from Gorkha-2. He says the CPN (Maoist) will not dare to deviate from its political (…)
Apr 15 Morning Three surprises of Nepal election results:
1. CPN(MAOIST) won mor than half of the directly elected seats were counting was completed!
2. Counting of votes under the PR system began, the Maoists were leading there too !! 3. 10 percent of the winners were women, most of (…)
, by BHADURI Aditi
Inside Nepal’s sealed borders women are running for historic April 10 Constituent Assembly elections. As they take advantage of ambitious gender quotas they are learning how to vote and doing what they can to weather campaign violence.
KATMANDU, Nepal (WOMENSENEWS)—Nepal has sealed its (…)
KATHMANDU: After first “congratulating the people of Nepal on their historic Constitutional Assembly election,” the United States is now seeking to subvert the electorate’s mandate by lobbying against the Maoists heading the next coalition government.
According to political and diplomatic (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Communist Party of Nepal Maoist victory in the election held on 10 April is a great step forward for the forces of the Left in the region and internationally. Not only Maoist but also Communist Party of Nepal United Marxist Leninist (UML) has tailing behind Maoist, but received more votes than (…)
, by DESCHENE Mary, MASKEY Mahesh
As the elections to the constituent assembly draw near (April 10), the question in Nepal seems not to be whether there will be a democratic republic, but rather what kind of democratic republic it will be. Bourgeois democrats’’ would want to preserve the country’s capitalistic character, while (…)
, by VANAIK Achin
Achin Vanaik sets out the complex socio-historical backdrop to the Nepalese Second Democratic Revolution of 2006 that overthrew the monarchy, the ensuing struggle for a new republic, and the tactical challenges facing the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). [The New Left Review]
A (…)
, by BOSE Tapan Kumar
The peace process in Nepal which was ushered in by the Jana Andolan II (Peoples’ Movement II) after the autocratic king Gyanendra was forced to handover political power to the political parties in April 2006 seems to be on the verge of collapse.
The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (…)
, by BALICKI Dana
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
US ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT GUNPOINT BY PAKISTANI SECURITY FORCES FORCED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY
U.S. human rights activists Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry were arrested in Lahore, Pakistan at 8:30pm on Wednesday, December 4 after attending a student rally at the Lahore (…)
, by IRIN
KATHMANDU, 29 November 2007 (IRIN) - Nepal’s human rights workers are concerned at the increasing number of displaced families in the country’s Terai region where ethnic tension between the Madhesi and Pahade communities is rising, activists told IRIN on 29 November.
In the past few weeks (…)
, by Nepal News
Amid fears of political showdown after the CPN-Maoist’s departure from the coalition cabinet, the eight parties today reached an understanding to continue with their unity.
A meeting of the top leaders of the parties held at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar decided to keep intact (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Life in Kathmandu come to a grinding halt, pople out in the street demanding republican government More than a lakh vowed to rewrite Nepal’s political hope.
Nepal’s fragile polity plunged into yet another major crisis on Tuesday as four Maoists ministers resigned from the interim Girija (…)
, by DHAR Sushovan
The mountainous terrains of Nepal are sandwiched between its two mega-neighbours China and India. It is home to a little more than 27 million people with an area of 147,181 km — of which 2.8% is covered with water.
As the country and its people after a strong political movement against the (…)
Article by Basanta taken from The Worker #11, of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), July 2007, pp. pp. 15-24, which presents the strategical outlook of the CPN-M (now UCPN).
“We do not regard Marx’s theory as something completed and inviolable; on the contrary, we are convinced that it has (…)
It is odd to see Nepal going round in circles when it should have been rewriting its destiny. Despite the pro-democratic deluge last year, the country’s political leadership, quite obviously, is not yet convinced about the complete irrelevance of monarchy. In what appears to be its last (…)
NPL 003 / 0607 / OBS 065
June 11, 2007
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in (…)
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