A meeting of the party´s top office bearers at party chairman Puspa Kamal Dahal´s residence at Lazimpat on Sunday took a decision to this effect. "The leaders [Chand and Sharma] will discuss the issue with the YCL leaders and recommend suggestions," said party Secretary Post Bahadur Bogati, who is also the minister for energy in the current coalition. [break]
Citing the party leadership´s earlier commitment, the agitating YCL members have been demanding relief packages on par with the PLA combatants. They have also demanded that the party give them the money raised from the monthly salary of the combatants saying that money was meant for the YCL.
Chand and Sharma will propose appropriate relief packages to those PLA members who were recruited into the YCL in 2007, and also ways to adjust YCL members in the new party hierarchy.
The party has also decided to hand over appreciation letters to the YCL members for their contributions to New Nepal.
The YCL leaders have threatened to capture the vehicles of Maoist leaders and also encircle the residence of Chairman Dahal if their demands are not met.
Over 3,500 Maoist combatants who were in the battlefields during the insurgency were recruited into the YCL formed in 2007 after the party joined the peace process. The party was to mobilize the YCL members to foment an "urban insurrection for state capture", but no such revolt took place.
Now these YCL members are dissatisfied after those staying in the cantonments received heft paychecks as well as Nepal Army jobs.
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