“Dahal said he is serious over our demands,” Baidya told Republica. Baidya had said that an all-party meeting should be held after first postponing the whole electoral process.
According to Baidya, he said to Dahal that the CPN-Maoist would be ready for talks if its demands were addressed.
The Baidya Maoists have been demanding that the electoral process should be scrapped to create a right environment.
Earlier, the CPN-Maoist had set three pre-conditions for coming to the negotiating table with the government.
The conditions include scrapping the 25-point deal signed on March 14 and the ´anti-national´ Citizenship Bill and withdrawing the appointment of Lokman Singh Karki as chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).
The CPM-Maoist also claimed that the party would not surrender before the big four parties or abide by decisions taken by them.
“Chairman Dahal requested Baidya to participate in the polls, assuring that he would try to create the environment for polls,” Mahara, who also participated in meeting, told Republica. According to Mahara, Baidya had said that the environment for polls was yet to materialize.
At the meeting, Baidya repeated his party´s disagreement with whole political process, including the formation of the Khila Raj Regmi-led government as per the decision of the four parties.
Dahal urged an election alliance between the two Maoist parties but Baidya said that was not possible. He argued that there were ideological differences between them.
The two Maoist supremos were meeting a long time after their split last June.
Baidya had been refusing to meet Dahal, arguing Dahal always misinterpreted such meetings to defame and humiliate the CPN-Maoist. Baidya has been complaining that Dahal sometimes said Baidya came to a meeting for the sake of money and sometimes for party unity.
“Dahal himself said that party unity was not possible,” added Baidya. Mahara informed that the two chairmen held talks for friendly relations between the two Maoist parties.
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