Maoists have announced that they will resurrect the people’s government to ease the problems faced by people at the local level.

Maoist’s people’s governments, which were operational in villages and district level as parallel forms of government undermining state authority during the conflict period, had been dissolved following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the seven political parties and the Maoists two years ago.

The recent meeting of the United Revolutionary People’s Council of the party had decided to resurrect the party’s people’s government.

Although the decision came within days of the high level steering committee’s decision not to reconstitute the local bodies for the time being citing disagreements within the SPA, Maoists have assured that the people’s government would not act as a parallel government like before.

A senior Maoist leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai
In a statement issued by convener of people’s council Dr Baburam Bhattarai, Wednesday morning, it has been stated that “since the local bodies have still not been re-constituted on the agreement among the seven political parties, the people’s government have been activated to resolve the problems faced by the people in the district and local level and extend help in development related works.”

The statement further said that the meeting which was presided over by Maoist chairman Prachanda also decided to start “model joint development projects” in 11 ‘autonomous state committees and two sub-committees.’

Additionally, the meeting has also re-constituted the central people’s council appointing Dr Baburam Bhattarai as convener and Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Dev Gurung and its deputy-conveners. The central committee also comprises 37 representatives from the party’s various wings and sectors.

Similarly, the meeting has also decided to mobilise activists to start election campaign from February 2. nepalnews.com ag Feb 06 08