No integration without people's statute: Pun

KATHMANDU, Oct 9: Maoist Standing Committee member Barsaman Pun said on Saturday that his party is against integration and rehabilitation of its combatants unless there is a guarantee of the promulgation of a “people´s constitution.”



“It is only ridiculous that other political parties are asking us to become a civilian party by completing the integration process,” said Pun while addressing a picnic in Bhaktapur by the party´s Young Communist League (YCL).[break]



He said the promulgation of a “People´s Constitution” should be ensured if the combatants are to be integrated and rehabilitated.



Pun is the in-charge of the Maoist party´s Integration Bureau and also a member of the Special Committee formed to supervise, integrate and rehabilitate the Maoist combatants. His views have come at a time when the Special Committee is making final preparations to start the process of integration and rehabilitation and finish it by January 14, 2011.



The Maoist leader argued that it would be against his party´s policy to complete the integration process without fulfilling the aspirations of the people and “those martyred and disappeared” during the insurgency.



He accused the other political parties of hatching a conspiracy to finish off the Maoist party by dissolving its Maoist army.



Pun is also member of the three-member sub-committee, under the Special Committee, formed to chalk out the plan of action, modality of integration and rehabilitation packages.

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