Kathmandu, Apr. 11:Main Opposition Communist Party of Nepal (UML) today unveiled  a number of protest programmes that aim at “revolutionising the people” against social ills.

The new series of protests will begin early next week with the UML workers directed back to the villages for stirring up general awareness.

The new protests under UML’s fourth programme will cover virtually all areas, according to K. P. Sharma Oli. Oli, UML’s Deputy Leader at the House of Representatives, heads a central movement mobilisation committee that ferried thousands of workers from across the country on April 8.

On that day, the party also made public a controversial name list of close to 3000 “corrupt” personalities that excludes the UML supporters. “The names are based on the reports of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, which has not included UML leaders and workers in the list of the corrupt,” Oli told journalists today. “We did not appeal to the CIAA to exclude our names,” he said. “UML workers are not there, simply because they are not corrupt.”

The six week long protest, “Let’s Go To The Villages, Let’s Make People Aware” is beginning nationwide,  Oli told a press conference at the Party’s head office this afternoon. Oli’s committee plans to take nationwide the messages about the corrupt as declared at the April 8 gathering in Kathmandu.

“Under this, we have also included a programme against the black marketers,” Oli said of the new activity on its menu that intends to force shops and stores to hang price lists. “We are doing this to control black marketing.”

“UML has also planned a week long camp to expedite campaigns against those who accept bribe, indulge in dilly-dallying and the corrupt,” Oli said. “Under this, the UML will extend help to the general public, do monitoring and take popular action if required.”

The programme will attempt at revolutionising the people against class oppression, Oli said. The campaign also intends to enhance resistance and skills for popular action at the people’s level against what he called Congressisation, violence, murder and corruption.

Oli said effective programmes would be launched to pressure the government to dissolve committees that oversee the Bisheshwor with Poor and Ganeshman Peace Campaign. UML has charged the government with misusing the state funds allocated under these programmes.

The party said it would also launch activities aimed discouraging discrimination against women and flesh trade and come up with a special action plan to solve the scarcity of drinking water in the Kathmandu valley.

Oli said the party will launch a sit-in at the Foreign Ministry to protest against the high dam of Purnagiri, which the Indians are planning as this is against the Integrated Treaty on Mahakali Rivers, signed and ratified in 1996.

The party, he said, will also protest against the border encroachment to give a vent to express the feeling for nationhood in the people.